Speaker biographies

Paul Atkins, a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2002 to 2008, is known for advocating for better transparency and consistency in the SEC's decision-making and enforcement activities, as well as for smarter regulation that considers costs and benefits. He represented the SEC at various meetings of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and at meetings of international bodies, including the Transatlantic Economic Council, Transatlantic Business Dialogue, World Economic Forum (Davos), and the European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum. Prior to his appointment to the SEC, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked on regulatory compliance, internal controls, and risk-management issues for financial services firms. A lawyer by training, Mr. Atkins also represented U.S. and foreign clients on corporate finance and business combination transactions while at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he spent a number of years in the firm's Paris office. He was admitted as conseil juridique in France in 1988. At AEI, Mr. Atkins works on issues related to U.S. and international regulation of the financial services industry.

Hans Bader is counsel for special projects at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Mr. Bader's prior casework has included suits involving the First Amendment, federalism, and civil rights issues. Just before joining CEI in 2003, Mr. Bader was senior counsel at the Center for Individual Rights. He has written widely on issues of Supreme Court jurisprudence and business issues.

Michael S. Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm. He has written extensively on many aspects of the American legal system, and his publications include numerous law review articles and books published by the AEI Press, including The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law (1996); Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could Happen (1999); and Harm-Less Lawsuits? What's Wrong with Consumer Class Actions (2005). He is the coauthor, with Richard A. Epstein, of Competition Laws in Conflict: Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy (2004) and Federal Preemption: States' Powers, National Interests (2007). He is the coeditor, with Michael Zöller, of Citizenship in America and Europe: Beyond the Nation-State? (2009). Mr. Greve also heads AEI's Transatlantic Law Forum. His current projects include a book on the constitutional foundations of competitive federalism.

Jeffrey P. Mahoney joined the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) in 2006 as general counsel. Prior to joining CII, Mr. Mahoney was counsel to the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). He served FASB and its parent entity, the Financial Accounting Foundation, in a variety of research, technical, and administrative matters and was primarily responsible for FASB's Washington, D.C., liaison activities. Prior to joining FASB, Mr. Mahoney was a corporate/securities lawyer at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, a law clerk to Chief Justice James G. Exum Jr. of the North Carolina Supreme Court, and an auditor at Arthur Andersen LLP. Mr. Mahoney has served on the North Carolina Law Review, is a member of the District of Columbia and North Carolina Bar Associations, and is also a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Mahoney is currently the cochair of the FASB's Investor Technical Advisory Committee; vice chair of the Investor Rights Committee of the Corporation, Finance, and Securities Law Section of the D.C. Bar; a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's Standing Advisory Group, and a member of the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Hearing Panel. He is a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law.

Gillian Metzger joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 2001. She teaches constitutional and administrative law, as well as a seminar on federalism. She has contributed to, with several coauthors, several editions of Gellhorn and Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Commentaries (Foundation Press) and joined as an editor in 2007. Ms. Metzger has also had articles published in the Harvard Law Review. Prior to teaching at Columbia, Ms. Metzger served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She also worked as an attorney in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, where she was instrumental in bringing litigation challenging Florida's permanent disenfranchisement of felons and assisted in efforts to defend campaign finance reform measures.

Tom Price, M.D., was first elected to Congress in November 2004, representing the sixth district of Georgia. He was reelected with broad support in 2006 and 2008. Prior to going to Washington, Dr. Price served four terms in the Georgia State Senate--two as minority whip. In 2002, he became the first Republican majority leader in the history of Georgia. In Congress, Dr. Price's priorities include reforming the tax system, strengthening health care and education, ensuring enforcement of our immigration laws, promoting a twenty-first-century energy plan, and finding transportation solutions for Atlanta's residents and commuters. Dr. Price serves on the Financial Services Committee as well as the Committee on Education and Labor, on which he is the ranking Republican member on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee. He was also elected to serve as chairman of the house Republican study committee during the 111th Congress. Dr. Price is an orthopedic surgeon, has owned his own clinic, and taught at Emory University School of Medicine as an assistant professor.