Erik Gerding is Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He joined the SEC from the University of Colorado School of Law, where he is a Professor of Law. He was previously on the law faculty at the University of New Mexico and taught as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. Erik practiced in the New York and Washington, DC offices of Cleary Gottlieb. He is the author of Law, Bubbles, and Financial Regulation (Routledge 2014).