Edward F. Greene

EDWARD F. GREENE - 2005 Recipient

ASECA is proud to announce that Edward F. Greene has been selected as the thirteenth recipient of the William O. Douglas Award.

Mr. Greene is General Counsel of Citigroup's Global Corporate and Investment Bank. He was previously a partner at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, resident in the London Office. Mr. Greene was also resident in the Washington and Tokyo offices of Cleary, Gottlieb. Prior to joining Cleary, Gottlieb in 1983, he was General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1981-1982, and Director of the Division of Corporation Finance from 1979-1981. Prior to joining the SEC, Mr. Greene was engaged in private practice in New York. Mr. Greene received an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1966 and an undergraduate degree from Amherst College in 1963. He is a member of the New York Bar.

Mr. Greene is a Trustee of the Practicing Law institute and the SEC Historical Society, a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee of the Bank of England, current Chairman of the Annual Securities Regulation Institute sponsored by Northwestern University, co-Chairman of the Annual Securities Regulation in Europe program sponsored by PLI, and a member of the advisory and editorial boards of several legal education publications and institutes. Mr. Greene has been an Adjunct Professor of Law a the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University Law Center, was appointed to the Nomura Chair of International Securities Regulation by the law faculty of the University of Tokyo for the 1989-1990 academic year, and was appointed Lecturer at the Harvard Law School for the 2003 spring term. He was also Chairman of the Legal Advisory Board of New York Stock Exchange from 1995 until 2001 continuing as a member ex officio and was a member of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes. He was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council from 1986 to 1987.