Robert Jackson
Robert Jackson, commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will present 鈥溾�� at the University of Notre Dame鈥檚 .聽The talk will take place 12:30-1:30 p.m. Friday (Nov. 22) in Mendoza鈥檚 Jordan Auditorium.
The talk is free and open to all students, the Notre Dame community and the public.
Jackson was appointed to the SEC by President Donald Trump and sworn in on Jan.聽11, 2018. He has聽extensive experience as a legal scholar, policy professional and corporate lawyer. His academic work has聽focused on corporate governance and the use of advanced data science techniques to improve聽transparency in securities markets.
He was the founding director of Columbia Law 91视频鈥檚 Data Lab, which uses cutting-edge technology to聽study the reliability of corporate disclosures. Jackson has written more than 20 articles in the nation鈥檚聽most prestigious legal and economics journals.
His published work includes a examining trading activity before the announcement of major聽corporate events, the first of the effect of mandatory disclosure required by the JOBS Act on聽trading by individual investors, and the first comprehensive study of CEO pay in firms owned by private聽equity.
He has on his scholarship before the U.S. Senate, and his work was previously the subject of聽rulemaking commentary before federal agencies, including the Federal Reserve and the SEC.
Jackson holds two bachelor鈥檚 degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA in finance from the聽Wharton 91视频 of Business, a master鈥檚 degree from Harvard鈥檚 Kennedy 91视频 of Government聽and a聽law degree from Harvard Law 91视频.
His talk is part of the , which is sponsored by The Eugene Clark聽Distinguished Lecture Series endowment.
For more information, contact Jean Meade, projects manager, at Jean.Meade@nd.edu or 574-631-3277.
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