The acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has created a new senior policy advisor position on climate change and ESG, another signal the agency will prioritize both areas under a Biden administration.
Allison Herren Lee on Monday named Satyam Khanna, an attorney who was a member of the Biden transition team that reviewed banking and securities regulators, to the new post, according to a press release. Khanna was most recently a resident fellow at NYU School of Law’s Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance and served at the SEC as a member of then-Commissioner Robert Jackson Jr.’s staff.
