Dan Berkovitz
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Commissioner
Dan M. Berkovitz, Commissioner, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), was nominated to the role by President Donald Trump on 24 April 2018. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on 28 August 2018 and sworn into office on 7 September 2018 for a five-year term expiring in April 2023. Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Berkovitz was a Partner and Co-Chair of the Futures and Derivatives practice at the law firm of WilmerHale. He also was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School, and Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Futures and Derivatives. Commissioner Berkovitz served as General Counsel of the CFTC from 2009 to 2013. While serving in this role, he was the agency’s Deputy Representative to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). Before the CFTC, he was a senior staff lawyer for the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management. Commissioner Berkovitz obtained an AB in physics from Princeton University and a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.