Thomas Riesenberg

Mr. Riesenberg is the former Deputy General Counsel of Ernst & Young LLP responsible for regulatory matters, primarily involving the SEC and the PCAOB. He also worked on lawsuits against the firm and counseled EY personnel on professional practice issues. He retired from the firm effective July 1, 2013. Through a consulting agreement with EY, he now serves as the Director of Legal Policy for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. Prior to joining EY, Mr. Riesenberg served for seven years as an Assistant General Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Previously, Mr. Riesenberg served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Barrington D. Parker in Washington, D.C.; as an appellate litigation attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice; and as an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold and Porter. He is a member of the bars of the State of New York and the District of Columbia. Mr. Riesenberg taught a securities law seminar for six years as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and he has written articles and been a speaker on numerous securities law programs. He is active in various profession-related organizations. He is the immediate past president of the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni, Inc.; a member of the Advisory Board of BNA’s Securities Regulation and Law Report; a former Chair of the Law and Accounting Committee of the American Bar Association; a former Chair of the Executive Council of the Federal Bar Association Securities Law Committee; and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the SEC Historical Society. Mr. Riesenberg is a 1980 graduate of the New York University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review and a Root-Tilden Scholar. He earned a B.A. from Oberlin College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors in history.