The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced five people who will serve on Chair Gary Gensler’s policy staff under Director Heather Slavkin Corzo.
Corporation Finance Counsel Corey Klemmer was an analyst at the AFL-CIO’s Office of Investment. She will focus on ensuring policies allow investors to have the proper information needed to make informed decisions. Klemmer graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a B.A. in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought and earned her J.D. from Tulane University Law School. She is a barred attorney in New York and is a CFA charter holder.
Trading and Markets Counsel Adam Large oversees major securities market participants, especially broker-dealers and security-based swaps. He has held several other positions at the SEC and also worked at FINRA. Large received his B.A. from University of Iowa and his J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.
Climate Counsel Mika Morse is the lead policy advisor on climate-risk finance issues and most recently was senior counsel and deputy legislative director for U.S. Senator Brian Schatz. Morse received her J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Harvard College.
Investment Management Counsel Sirimal Mukerjee was a branch chief in the Investment Adviser Regulation Office in the Division of Investment Management’s Rulemaking Office, where he developed policies and rules governing investment advisers, private funds, and investment companies. Mukerjee received a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Trading and Markets Counsel Sai Rao watches major securities market participants with a priority on market structure. He has worked in various roles at the SEC over the past five years and earlier was employed by a financial regulatory reform think tank and a data analytics start-up. He is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Law School and has a Master of Financial Economics from the University of Oxford.
