Dr. Scott Bauguess is VP Global Regulatory Policy at Coinbase, a position responsible for consultations with regulatory authorities that oversee the banking and financial market sectors worldwide, including global standard setting organizations. He previously served as the Deputy Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he supervised economic analyses of recommendations to enact federal rules related to capital raising, investment management, broker dealers, market structure, and derivative securities.
Dr. Bauguess is also a member of the finance faculty in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and holds a teaching appointment in the University of Michigan Law School. He received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Finance from Arizona State University.