Biography

Mark Flannery was named Chief Economist and Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis in July 2014.

Dr. Flannery previously was a finance professor at the University of Florida’s Warrington School of Business Administration. Earlier in his career, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Pennsylvania, and was a visiting professor in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. He served on the Federal Reserve’s Model Validation Council, the New York Federal Reserve’s Financial Advisory Roundtable, and the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s Center for Financial Innovation and Financial Stability. He was co-director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s Center for Financial Research from 2003 to 2007 and became a senior adviser at the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research in 2011.

Dr. Flannery holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and master’s and doctorate degrees from Yale University.