DeWitt served as a senior adviser and counsel to acting chairman and commissioner Michael S. Piwowar of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), advising on matters pertaining to the Division of Corporation Finance, the Office of the Chief Accountant, the Office of International Affairs, and the Division of Enforcement. He was also designated as the SEC’s observer of the FINRA FinTech Industry Committee. DeWitt also served as the executive director of research for the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness of US capital markets and the stability of the US financial system, under the direction of Hal S. Scott. Previously, he served for four years as an associate in the Tokyo and Hong Kong offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, advising issuers and underwriters on debt and equity capital markets transactions.
A graduate of Yale College, King’s College Cambridge, and Harvard Law School, DeWitt served as law clerk to the Honorable Laurence H. Silberman of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He is a member of the Exchequer Club as well as the Financial Services and Corporate Governance Committee of the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project and is proficient in eight languages at various degrees of fluency.