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Jennifer J. Schulp

Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives

Jennifer J. Schulp is the director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, where she focuses on the regulation of securities and capital markets. She has testified before Congress multiple times, including before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on House Administration. Her writing has appeared in Barron’s, Business Insider, CoinDesk, Law360, MarketWatch, National Review Online, NBC News, New York Daily News, and others. Schulp is also a member of the Investor Choice Advocates Network advisory board.

Before joining Cato, Schulp was a director in the Department of Enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (FINRA), representing FINRA in investigations and disciplinary proceedings relating to violations of the federal securities laws and self‐​regulatory organization rules.

Prior to FINRA, Schulp had been both a lawyer in private practice at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and a clerk for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She received her JD from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was awarded the Karl Llewelyn Cup and the Thomas R. Mulroy Award for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy. She holds an AB in political science from the University of Chicago.

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