Brooksley Born

Retired Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

Ms. Born received her law degree from Stanford Law School where she was President of the Stanford Law Review and received the Outstanding Senior Award. Prior to joining Arnold & Porter LLP, she was a law clerk to Judge Henry W. Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Brooksley Born is a retired partner of Arnold & Porter LLP where she practiced for more than thirty years. She was head of the firm’s derivatives practice, chaired its pro bono committee, and served on its policy committee. From 1996 to 1999 Ms. Born was chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that oversees futures and commodity option markets, and strongly advocated the need for federal regulation of the over-the-counter derivatives market. That unregulated market played a significant role in the recent financial crisis. She served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission from 2009 until early 2011, when the Commission issued its report on the causes of the 2007-2008 financial crisis and resulting economic crisis.

Ms. Born has championed women’s rights, civil rights and the rights of the indigent. She currently chairs the board of the National Women’s Law Center which she helped to found and has served on the boards of a number of other public interest legal organizations. She has served on the boards of the American Bar Association, the American Bar Foundation and ALI-ABA and has chaired a number of ABA entities including the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, the Women’s Caucus, and the Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary.

Issues: Anti-Trust Regulations, Bank Bail Out, Bank Bonuses, Banking and Finance, Fannie/Freddie, Financial Markets, Housing Market Collapse, Ratings Agencies, Securitization, Too Big To Fail

Experience:

• Commissioner, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 2001-2009
• Chair, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 1996-1999
• Member, Arnold and Porter LLP, Policy Committee
• Chair, Arnold and Porter LLP, Pro Bono Committee and Associates Evaluation Committee
• President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commission, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 1996-1999

Education:

J.D., Stanford Law School, 1964
A.B., Stanford University, 1961