Mary Schapiro

Mary Lovelace Schapiro (born June 19, 1955) served as the 29th Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She was appointed by President Barack Obama, unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and assumed the Chairship on January 27, 2009. She is the first woman to be the permanent Chair of the SEC. In 2009, Forbes ranked her the 56th most powerful woman in the world.

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Quotes

• It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to work with so many dedicated SEC staff who strive every day to protect investors and ensure our markets operate with integrity,”  “Over the past four years we have brought a record number of enforcement actions, engaged in one of the busiest rulemaking periods, and gained greater authority from Congress to better fulfill our mission.
  • Head of SEC, Mary Schapiro, to step down next month NBC News (November 26, 2012)

• It’s amazing what people will stop doing when they have to tell the world what they’ve been doing.
  • The women who questioned Wall Street Harvard Gazette (May 4, 2015)

• It is a “peerless group of standard setters and policy makers and government officials” interested in seeing the highest quality, most accessible data made available to everyone.
  • Free Climate Data Platform to Offer Sneak Peek at COP28 The Wall Street Journal (November 30, 2023)

• Maybe it’s a little bit cart before the horse in the sense that we had the [climate data] disclosure requirements before we had a utility, but now we’re rapidly catching up.
  • Free Climate Data Platform to Offer Sneak Peek at COP28 The Wall Street Journal (November 30, 2023)