[[Harvard Law School]],JD,1999
[[University of Chicago]],MA,History,2021
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William A. Birdthistle | |
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Born | William Anthony Birdthistle October 20, 1973 Cork City, County Cork, Ireland |
Occupation(s) | Director, Division of Investment Management, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Academic background | |
Education | Duke University, BA, 1995 Harvard Law School, JD, 1999 University of Chicago, MA, History, 2021 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Corporate Law,Securities Regulation |
Institutions | Securities and Exchange Commission Chicago-Kent College of Law Ropes &Gray |
William A. Birdthistle (born October 20,1973) is a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. [1] He served as the Director of the Division of Investment Management at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2021-2024. [2]
Birdthistle was born in Cork,Ireland,and is a citizen of both the Republic of Ireland and the United States. He spent eight years living in Brega,Libya,and nine years in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia,before coming to the United States in 1991 for his undergraduate studies. [3]
He attended Duke University for his Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and psychology,where he graduated summa cum laude in 1995. He then enrolled at Harvard Law School for his Juris Doctor and served as managing editor of the Harvard Law Review ,graduating in 1999.
In 2019,he matriculated at the University of Chicago,where he received an MA in history in 2021 and is currently working on a PhD in history. [4]
Birdthistle spent a year as Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Diarmuid O'Scannlain. [4] He was then an attorney at the Boston law firm of Ropes &Gray from 2001 to 2006. He joined the faculty at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2006,and received tenure in 2011, [4] when he also won Chicago-Kent's Excellence in Teaching Award. [4]
From 2016 through 2020,Birdthistle served as a visiting professor of law and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School,where he won the Graduating Students Award for Teaching Excellence in 2019. [5]
On December 21,2021,the Wall Street Journal reported that Birdthistle would join the Securities and Exchange Commission as director of the division of investment management. [6]
Birdthistle joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in April,2024. [1]
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