Dalia Osman Blass is the Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management.

The SEC's Division of Investment Management works to protect investors and to promote capital formation and innovation in investment products and services through oversight and regulation of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar investment management industry. The Division is responsible for the Commission's regulation of investment companies, variable insurance products, and federally registered investment advisers. 

Ms. Blass previously served in a number of leadership roles in the Division of Investment Management, most recently as Assistant Chief Counsel. Ms. Blass returned to the SEC as Director of Investment Management in September, 2017 from Ropes & Gray LLP, where she advised on a broad range of investment fund, private equity, and regulatory matters, including Exchange Traded Funds. Earlier in her career, she practiced law at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, and began her career in the London office of Shearman & Sterling LLP. 

During her SEC tenure of more than a decade, Ms. Blass received the SEC's Manuel F. Cohen Award, which recognizes outstanding legal ability and performance.

Ms. Blass earned a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Executive Editor of the Journal of Transnational Law. 

Dalia received her B.A in international studies from the American University and studied political science at the American University in Cairo.