SEC Appoints Haoxiang Zhu Director of Division of Trading and Markets

(Source: LinkedIn)

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the appointment of Haoxiang Zhu, a professor of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as Director of the agency's Division of Trading and Markets, effective Dec. 10, 2021. David Saltiel, who has served as Acting Director of the Division for the past several months​, has been appointed as one of the Division’s Deputy Directors and also will continue to lead the Office of Analytics and Research.

About Haoxiang Zhu

Mr. Zhu is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Management and Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also works at the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Research Associate, as the Finance Department Editor at Management Science, and as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. Mr. Zhu formerly worked as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Working Group on Financial Markets and as an academic expert for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Bank for International Settlements.