Edwin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU School of Law Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance where he writes in empirical law and finance. His current research is focused on financial advisors, institutional voting, and equity market structure. His scholarly and policy research has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, the Stanford Law Review and featured prominently across major periodicals including The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the front page of The Wall Street Journal.
Previously, he was chief economist and counsel to Commissioner Robert J. Jackson Jr. at the Securities and Exchange Commission on broker-dealer, exchange, and market structure issues. His original policy analysis on shareholder proposals, proxy voting, private placements, disclosure issues, investment advisers, and stock buybacks has been cited in every major media outlet, by members of Congress in the House and Senate, and by leading securities and corporate governance scholars. He holds two bachelor’s degrees (in economics and applied computational math) from the University of Washington, and a masters and Ph.D. in finance from Rice University, and a J.D. from NYU Law where he was a Furman Academic Scholar.