The SEC announced last week that Vanderbilt professor, Craig M. Lewis, PhD, has been named as both the Director of the agency's Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation, and as the SEC's new Chief Economist as well. Lewis, the Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Finance at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, is currently a visiting scholar with the SEC, and will take up his new dual post next month.
The full text of the SEC's announcement is available at: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-114.htm