SEC Announces New Chief Economist and Director of Economic and Risk Analysis Division

The SEC announced that it named Mark J. Flannery as Chief Economist and Director of its Division of Economic and Risk Analysis ("DERA"). The DERA provides interdisciplinary analysis to help inform the SEC's policymaking, rulemaking, enforcement and examinations.

Mr. Flannery, who will replace Craig M. Lewis in September, is a finance professor at the University of Florida's Warrington School of Business Administration.

See: Press Release.