Harvey Pitt

Harvey Lloyd Pitt (* 28. February 1945 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American university teachers and politicians of the Republican Party , which between 2001 and 2003 Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( Securities and Exchange Commission ) was.

Life

After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in New York in 1961, Pitt began an undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College , which he completed in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent postgraduate study of law at St. John's University , he completed in 1968 with a Juris Doctor (JD). He then began his professional career at the US Securities and Exchange Commission and in 1975, at the age of 30, became its youngest chief legal advisor (General Counsel) .

In addition to his work for the SEC, he took a professorship at George Washington University in 1974 and taught there until 1982. In addition, he was adjunct professor (adjunct professor) for law at Georgetown University from 1975 to 1984 and professor at the university from 1983 to 1984 of Pennsylvania .

On August 3, 2001, Pitt was appointed by US President George W. Bush to succeed Arthur Levitt as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC, the US banking regulator. He held this position until January 17, 2003 and was then replaced by William H. Donaldson .

Publications

• Practical Securities Law , 1979
• SEC Enforcement Actions , 1980
• Evolving Financial Services Industry , 1985
• Acquisitions of US Companies , 1987
• The Law of Financial Services , 1988
• Pitt on Corporate Control (B1-1311) , 1988
• 28th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation , 1996

Web links

• Harvey Pitt in nndb (English)
• Bibliography in the Open Library