SEC Appoints Barbara Roper as Senior Advisor to Chair

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the appointment of Barbara Roper as Senior Advisor to the Chair. Ms. Roper's focus will be on issues relating to retail investor protection, including matters relating to policy, broker-dealer oversight, investment adviser oversight, and examinations. 

Ms. Roper is currently the Director of Investor Protection for the Consumer Federation of America (CFA). She is a graduate of Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in Art History.

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"I'm excited to join the SEC and Chair Gensler's leadership team," Ms. Roper said. "I've dedicated my career to ensuring that our capital markets work for the average investor. With investor protection at the core of the SEC's mission, I'm looking forward to bringing that same focus on the needs of individual investors to my work for the SEC."

"Barb is a champion for investors and will provide invaluable counsel on behalf of the American public," Chair Gary Gensler said. "I've had the pleasure of working closely with her on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the critical market reforms of the Dodd-Frank Act, and I'm thrilled to collaborate with her again at the SEC."