The former chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Gary Gensler is a 64-year-old staunch Democrat from Baltimore, Maryland whose entire career had been spent in finance, both in the private and government sectors.
According to the SEC website, Gensler, known as “Mr. Clean” at Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), was nominated by President Biden to chair the SEC in February 2021 and was narrowly confirmed by the Senate in a 53-45 vote in which nearly all Republican votes were tallied against Gensler.
