Mary Schapiro

Mary Schapiro served as Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 2009 to 2012, overseeing the agency through the implementation of major post-financial crisis reforms mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. She was a prominent voice for investor protection and market integrity. After the SEC, she became Chair of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) and later chaired the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Michael Bloomberg-founded initiative that developed a global framework for corporate disclosure of climate-related financial risks. TCFD recommendations have been adopted or referenced by regulators globally, making her work one of the most consequential contributions to ESG standardization. Before the SEC, she served as Chairman of the CFTC and FINRA (formerly NASD). Her career spanning multiple regulatory agencies gave her unusually broad perspective on investor protection, derivatives regulation, and financial market infrastructure. The TCFD framework she helped develop influenced mandatory climate disclosure rules adopted by the SEC, UK FCA, and other jurisdictions.