Cheryl Evans leads the Lifetime Financial Security Program at the Milken Institute. Evans frequently discusses issues related to financial security and retirement savings and has been cited in publications such as Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg News, MarketWatch, CBS News, Pensions & Investments, and TheStreet. She has also written for AARP’s International Website.
She spent nine years at CFA Institute. She worked in its enforcement program, she helped lead its Future of Finance global policy and advocacy initiative, and she worked in educational programs where she also spoke on issues faced by women in finance and law.
Evans worked as Special Counsel at the US Chamber of Commerce, focusing on securities litigation, capital markets, corporate criminal law, and general litigation issues. She was a part of the Chamber’s economic crisis working group, contributed to two capital markets studies, and led a large economic study.
She spent over 11 years at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). At the SEC, she worked as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement where she was a member of the WorldCom case team, she worked in the division of Trading and Markets approving new financial products and drafting and interpreting trading rules, and she conducted compliance exams in the division Examinations.
She served as a Special Assistant US Attorney in the EDVA in Alexandria, Virginia prosecuting criminal cases. She also served as a Trial Attorney in the Commercial Litigation Section of the US Department of Justice and was a judicial law clerk at the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Evans holds a BA degree from Marietta College, a JD degree from Rutgers Law School, and an LLM degree in transnational business practice from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in conjunction with Salzburg Law School in Austria.
