Biography
Ian McGinley is the Director of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement. In this role, he leads the CFTC’s enforcement program and oversees prosecutions and investigations, the market surveillance unit, the forensic economist unit, and the CFTC’s whistleblower program. He joined the CFTC in February 2023 from the law firm Akin Gump, where he was a partner.
Before joining Akin Gump, Ian served for more than a decade as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was Co-Chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit, a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, and Chief of the Narcotics Unit. In his role as Co-Chief of Complex Frauds and Cybercrime, he oversaw a wide variety of matters involving sophisticated financial frauds, cybercrime, cryptocurrency fraud, healthcare fraud, tax fraud, and FCPA violations. Earlier in his career at SDNY, he investigated and prosecuted cases involving insider trading, market manipulation, sanctions violations, and terrorism. He is a recipient of the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, the Federal Drug Agents Foundation’s True American Hero Award, and was previously named Federal Prosecutor of the Year in 2015 by the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation.
Ian received his J.D. from New York University School of Law. He holds an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School and an M.Sc. with merit from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Ian received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University. He clerked for the Honorable Gene E.K. Pratter, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.