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Fireside Chat – SEC Office of International Affairs
Tuesday April 22nd • Broadcast at 3:00 pm ET
"None of the fears that this office would take over and start dictating international policy ever came to pass. It was always collegially run; and in fact, the efforts to negotiate were so much more bolstered by the fact that when a foreign country would come in to sit with us, they’d be sitting with a senior enforcement official, a senior international official – somebody who knew the markets better than anyone else, and someone who knew the corporate site better than anyone else – that it really played to the SEC’s greatest strengths."
– June 13, 2005 oral histories interview with Michael Mann
Join online at www.sechistorical.org on Tuesday, April 22nd at 3:00 pm ET for the Fireside Chat on the SEC Office of International Affairs, part of the SEC Historical Society’s educational activities commemorating the upcoming 75th anniversary of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Michael Mann, who helped found the SEC Office of International Affairs in the late 1980s; and Dr. Felice Batlan of Chicago-Kent Law School, who is curating the virtual museum and archive’s next gallery on "The Imperial SEC: The SEC and International Securities Regulation," will be the panelists for the chat, with moderator Professor Theresa Gabaldon, Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School.
Send in your questions for the chat by April 18th to c.rosati@sechistorical.org.
The Fireside Chat is free to all museum visitors; no advance registration is required.
The 2008 Fireside Chat season is made possible through the support of Pfizer, Inc.
Highlights of 2007
Read the report of the SEC Historical Society's activities in 2007. This report is the narrative section of the 2007 Annual Report, which will be published later this year.