Featured Speakers Sarah Bloom Raskin , the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is the Colin W. Brown Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke University School of Law, faculty director of the Global Financial Markets Center, and a senior fellow in the Duke Center on Risk. She is a member of the Regenerative Crisis Response Committee, a group of leading experts
Representative Jamie Raskin proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes Montgomery, Carroll, and Fred- erick Counties. Congressman Raskin was sworn into his third Term at the start of the 117th Congress on January 3, 2021. This is Rep. Raskin’s third term serving on the House Judiciary Committee, the Committee on Oversight and Reform,
in law, economics, and public policy focused on the use of fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policies in a climate-transitioned economy.
and the Committee on House Administration. This is his second term serving on the Rules Committee and the Coronavirus Select Subcommit- tee. He was also renamed Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Chair of the Rules Subcommittee on Expedited Procedures for the 117th Congress. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he also served as the Senate Majority Whip. He earned a reputation for building coalitions in Annapolis to deliver a series of landmark legislative accomplishments. He was also a professor of con- stitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than 25 years. He authored several books, including the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People and the highly acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students , which has sold more than 50,000 copies. Congressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
From 2014 to 2017, Raskin was the second-in-command at the Treasury Department, where she was known for her pursuit of innovative solutions to enhance Americans’ shared prosperity, the resilience of the country’s critical financial infrastructure, and the defense of consumer safeguards in the financial marketplace. Earlier, Raskin was a governor of the Federal Reserve Board and a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, where she helped conduct the nation’s monetary policy and promote financial stability. She also served as commissioner of financial regulation for the State of Maryland from 2007 to 2010. Her private sector experi- ence includes having served as managing director at the Promontory Financial Group, general counsel of the WorldWide Retail Exchange, and at the law firms of Arnold and Porter and Mayer Brown. Earlier in her career she served as banking counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Raskin is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
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