Valerie Szczepanik

Valerie A. Szczepanik is the Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer and the head of the AI Task Force at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Before that, she was the Director of the SEC’s Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology Office, the Senior Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation, and an Associate Director in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance. She also held several positions in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, including Assistant Director and Senior Trial Counsel. Ms. Szczepanik served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. She clerked for federal judges on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and, prior to clerking, practiced patent law. Ms. Szczepanik received her Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University and her Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.