Harvey Pitt
Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Topic: "The Newly Activist SEC"
Live Webcast July 19, 2002, 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT

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Harvey Pitt

President Bush appointed Harvey L. Pitt as the 26th chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in August 2001. For Pitt, this appointment was like a return home. More than 30 years earlier, he began his career as an attorney on the staff of the SEC. He served there from 1968 to 1978, the last three years as the commission's general counsel.

For the next quarter-century, Pitt worked as a private attorney, mostly at the Washington office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson. During those years he also held positions at Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University Law School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Pitt also was a founding trustee and the president of the SEC Historical Society, and participated in a wide variety of bar and continuing legal education activities to further public consideration of significant securities law issues.

Chairman Pitt received a J.D. degree from St. John's University School of Law (1968), and a bachelor's degree from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College) (1965).

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