The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Adriana Z. Robertson as one of four new members of its Investor Advisory Committee.

Robertson, the Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law, focuses her research at the intersection of law and finance, including securities law, capital markets regulation, and corporate finance. Her academic work has been published in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed finance journals, and has been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and Bloomberg.

Before joining the Law School, Adriana held the Honourable Justice Frank Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, with a joint appointment in the Finance area at the Rotman School of Management. Roberston holds a BA from the University of Toronto (Trinity College), where she was awarded the Lorne T. Morgan Gold Medal in Economics, a PhD in Finance from the Yale School of Management, and a JD from Yale Law School.

The three other newly appointed members of the SEC Investor Advisory Committee are: Patrick Daugherty, a partner at of Foley & Lardner, John Liu, former managing director at Accenture and co-founder of Agile Partners; and Sheldon L. Ray Jr., former senior vice president of investments at Raymond James & Associates.