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Robert H. Ledig is Managing Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Assurance Research and Engineering at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason Univerity’s (GMU’s) Scalia Law School.

He has extensive experience in banking and financial services regulation and related financial technology, privacy and information security, corporate, securities, administrative law, and litigation matters. He has written and spoken widely on financial services issues.

He is an editor and author of a number of books, including: The Volcker Rule: Commentary and Analysis (Thomson Reuters 2014), Dechert LLP’s Analysis of Financial Regulatory Reform [Dodd-Frank Act] for the American Bankers Association (2010), 21st Century Money, Banking & Commerce (1998), Management of Risks Created by Internet-Initiated Value Transfers (National Automated Clearing House Association 1995), The Fair Lending Guide (Glasser Legal Works 1995), and Contracting with the RTC and FDIC (Prentice Hall Law and Business 1991). He was Chair of the Electronic Financial Services Subcommittee of the Cyberspace Committee of the American Bar Association.

He was Director of the Program on Financial Regulation & Technology and a Professor of Law at Scalia Law School from 2018 to 2021. He taught classes on FinTech, Regulation of Financial Institutions, Banking Law, and Privacy & Information Security Law. Prior to that he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the school for more than 20 years.

He was a partner at Vartanian & Ledig, PLLC, a Washington, D.C. financial services law firm, from 2018 to 2023. He practiced law in the Financial Services groups at Dechert LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP from 1984 to 2018. Prior to that, he was an attorney at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

He has a J.D. from George Washington University Law School and a B.A. from Harpur College at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

J.P. Auffret is director, Center for Assurance Research and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computing, co-director, Center of Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience and director, Research Partnerships in the Costello School of Business at George Mason University, USA. Auffret is also co-founder and current president of the International Academy of CIO (IAC), an NGO headquartered in Tokyo.

Auffret’s work and research span a range of applied technology fields including CIO and ICT governance; cybersecurity; and innovation and application of emerging technologies and with APEC, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of State, World Bank, ITU and IBM. His experience includes executive positions with MCI and its joint venture with British Telecom, Concert and academic positions with George Mason, Duke University’s Center for International Development, Georgetown University Biomedical Graduate Education, UNU-eGOV (United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance) and as physicist-in-residence at American University.  Auffret earned a B.S. from Duke University where he was an A.B. Duke Scholar, M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. in Physics from American University.