The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Friday that it had named Craig Lewis as the SEC’s chief economist and director of the Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation (RiskFin).
Lewis (left), the Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Finance at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, is currently a visiting scholar at the SEC and will assume his new role in June.
As the SEC notes in the release announcing Lewis’ appointment, RiskFin was created in September 2009 to provide interdisciplinary analysis to help inform the commission’s policymaking, rulemaking, enforcement and examinations. RiskFin encompasses the former Office of Economic Analysis, Office of Risk Assessment, and Office of Interactive Disclosure.