Roger Silvers

Roger Silvers is a former senior economist at the Securities and Exchange Commission, at the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, . His research focuses on the enforcement of securities laws and international cooperation between regulators. His studies have been recognized by several awards (; ; Best paper International Accounting Section; ) and accepted to many highly selective conferences. This includes the ​, , , LBS Accounting Symposium, and .
​He has been invited to share his findings at various regulatory and practitioner events by US regulators (the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission), foreign regulators (in Israel, Singapore, and the Netherlands), and influential international think tanks (the World Bank, Federation of European Stock Exchanges, World Federation of Exchanges, and the International Organization for Securities Commissions (IOSCO)). He is frequently solicited to provide consultation (for regulators, stock exchanges, short-selling firms, and hedge funds), commentary for articles in the popular press (e.g., by and writers at ), public comment letters (to the and ), blog posts (e.g., the ), and . Finally, his work has been influential in the parliaments of several countries seeking to join IOSCO’s Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding.