Policy Expert in Financial Regulation

The Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives is expanding its DC-based team and seeking to hire a policy expert to cover financial regulation issues, particularly banking and/or securities regulation. If you are an entrepreneurial, hard-working self-starter, who is enthusiastic about developing and promoting public policy alternatives to our present financial regulatory system that ensure a stable, flourishing, and free society, we encourage you to apply.

Company Overview:

The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization—a think tank—dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Its scholars and analysts conduct independent, nonpartisan research on a wide range of policy issues. Cato established the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives in 2014, responding to a growing need for robust research on and analysis of the expansive role central banks and government regulation of finance play in the economy. The Center is dedicated to revealing the shortcomings of today’s centralized and discretionary monetary and financial regulatory systems and to identifying, studying, and promoting alternatives more conducive to a stable, flourishing, and free society.

Responsibilities:

• Producing, soliciting, editing, summarizing, and promoting policy research and amicus briefs on financial regulation issues.
• Providing timely commentary on financial regulation issues, including in the form of Op-Eds, media interviews, and other speaking engagements.
• Developing a wider audience for the Center’s content, including among policymakers, media outlets, and other scholarly policy organizations.
• Contributing to the Center’s overall mission by actively participating in Center initiatives and identifying new areas of exploration.

Qualifications:

• A JD or PhD in economics or finance with at least five years of experience, or a Master’s in economics or finance with at least seven years of experience.
• A demonstrated understanding of the banking regulatory system and/or securities regulation; particular areas of expertise may include the Dodd-Frank Act, banking capital requirements, deposit insurance, federal securities regulation, capital markets, derivatives, corporate structure and governance, and housing finance.
• Superior research, writing, and communication skills.
• A commitment to identifying and promoting alternatives to the existing monetary and financial regulatory systems that are more conducive to a stable, flourishing, and free society.
• Experience on Capitol Hill, at a financial regulator, such as the Federal Reserve or Securities and Exchange Commission, or in a policy-focused practice at a law firm or institution is preferred.

To Apply: 

Completed application packages should be submitted online at https://www.cato.org/about/jobs no later than July 31, 2018. Incomplete applications will not be considered. The application package consists of the following:

• Cover Letter, which should include the applicant’s fields of financial regulation expertise and the role for which they wish to be considered.
• Resumé or CV.
• Writing Sample.