Ian P. McGinley

Ian McGinley is the Director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement. In this role, he leads the CFTC’s enforcement program and oversees prosecutions and investigations, the market surveillance unit, the forensic economist unit, and the CFTC’s whistleblower program. He joined the CFTC in February 2023 from the law firm Akin Gump, where he was a partner. Ian previously served for more than a decade as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was Co-Chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit and a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.