Christy Goldsmith Romero is an internationally recognized economic expert. She served as a financial regulator under four U.S. Presidents, served as a presidential appointee nominated by President Biden and President Obama, with two unanimous Senate confirmations, and testified before Congress 14 times. Professor Goldsmith Romero’s work has received substantial media coverage, and she is a sought-after speaker. Her teaching focuses on Corporations (corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and executive compensation), as well as the future of finance involving emerging technology such as AI, digital assets, blockchain, tokenization, and FinTech. Professor Goldsmith Romero is a faculty member of Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council.

Professor Goldsmith Romero served at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury Department, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where she most recently served as a CFTC Commissioner. In June 2024, President Biden nominated her to be the Chairman and Board Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

As a CFTC Commissioner from 2022-2025, Professor Goldsmith Romero led the financial regulator during a time of expansion in markets and global uncertainty in oil and energy markets. At the CFTC, she promoted responsible innovation in emerging technology, and resilience to risk. During her tenure, the CFTC expanded trading in digital assets and prediction markets. She sponsored the Technology Advisory Committee where she added experts in AI, cryptocurrency, stablecoins, blockchain, FinTech, and cybersecurity. The Committee released landmark reports on digital assets, and artificial intelligence in financial markets. She also continued her career-long enforcement record of combatting fraud and other illegality and advancing investor and consumer protection.

Prior to the CFTC, Professor Goldsmith Romero served at the Treasury Department from 2009-2022. There she served as the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), leading a watchdog office that conducted high-impact oversight of the government’s financial crisis response. SIGTARP recovered $11.4 billion, and its investigations led to criminal and civil charges by the Department of Justice, state prosecutors, and the SEC, against hundreds of individuals and entities including large financial institutions.

Professor Goldsmith Romero also served at the SEC, as counsel to two SEC Chairs Christopher Cox (R) and Mary Schapiro (I), after serving on the staff in the Enforcement Division. Early in her career she was a litigator at large law firms including Jenner & Block, Snell & Wilmer, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and served a federal judicial clerkship.

Professor Goldsmith Romero has also taught classes on securities regulation and the role of the SEC, cryptocurrency regulation, and federal oversight, at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Virginia Law School.
Professor Goldsmith Romero holds a Juris Doctorate from Brigham Young University, and a Bachelor of Science from Old Dominion University.