Biography

ROB S. KHUZAMI

On March 30, 2009, Rob was appointed Director of the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission. As Director, Rob oversees the approximately 1100 enforcement staff throughout the SEC’s 12 offices and is responsible for the overall operation and direction of the enforcement program.   

From 2002 through 2009, Rob served as General Counsel for the Americas for Deutsche Bank AG, and before that as the Bank’s Global Head of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations.  

From 1990 through 2002, Rob was a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.  In that role, Rob held the position of Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force for approximately three years.  Prior to that, Rob served in that Office’s Counterterrorism Unit, where he was a member of the prosecution team in United States v. Rahman, et al.  The trial led to the conviction of “Blind Sheik,” Omar Ahmed Ali Abdel Rahman, and nine co-defendants for operating an international terrorist organization responsible for, among other things, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and for planning the virtually simultaneous bombing attacks on the FBI’s New York Headquarters, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels and the United Nations Headquarters.

Rob has received the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award (1996), the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation’s Federal Prosecutor Award (1997), and the Henry L. Stimson Award for Outstanding Public Service (2001).

Rob served as a law clerk for the Honorable John R. Gibson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He received his J.D. from the Boston University School of Law and received his B.A. from the University of Rochester.   

Associated Items

Robert Khuzami is associated with the following items:

  Live Seminar

• The SEC Speaks in 2011 Feb. 4 - 5, 2011 Washington, DC
  
• Financial Crisis Fallout 2010: Emerging Enforcement Trends Nov. 4, 2010 New York, NY
  
• Securities Regulation Institute (42nd Annual) Nov. 10 - 12, 2010 New York, NY
  

  Web Segment

• Government Enforcement Update from the web program Securities Regulation Institute 2009 (41st Annual)
  
• Current Hedge Fund Enforcement Issues - The Regulators' Perspective from the web program Hedge Fund Enforcement & Regulatory Developments 2009
  
• State Law Enforcement Updates from the web program Corporate Governance 2010
  
• Enforcement (SEC Speaks) from the web program The SEC Speaks in 2010
  
• Enforcement Priorities from the web program Enforcement 2010: Multi-Agency Enforcement Efforts in the New Decade
  

  Course Handbooks

• The SEC Speaks in 2010
  

  CHB Chapters

• Outline of Recent SEC Enforcement Actions from the book Securities Regulation Institute 2009 (41st Annual)
  
• Outline of Recent SEC Enforcement Actions from the book Enforcement 2010: Multi-Agency Enforcement Efforts in the New Decade
  

  MP3 Audio

• Hedge Fund Enforcement & Regulatory Developments 2009: Current Hedge Fund Enforcement Issues - The Regulators' Perspective
  
• Securities Regulation Institute 2009 (41st Annual): Government Enforcement Update
  
• The SEC Speaks in 2010: Enforcement
  
• Corporate Governance 2010: State Law Enforcement Updates
  
• Enforcement 2010: Multi-Agency Enforcement Efforts in the New Decade -Enforcement Priorities