Christy Goldsmith Romero is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. She is a distinguished visitor on the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center. She served as a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from March 2022 to May 2025. Romero has more than twenty years of experience as a career federal attorney and leader in financial regulation, having served four presidents at the CFTC, the US Department of the Treasury, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As sponsor of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee, she focused on the future of finance and led CFTC work on cyber resilience, drafting the commission’s first proposed cybersecurity rule for banks and brokers. Romero served for twelve years at the US Department of the Treasury, including a decade as the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2012. She also served on the Council of Inspectors General, overseeing the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

From 2019 to 2021, Romero was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and, in 2020, at the University of Virginia Law School. She holds a law degree from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and an undergraduate degree from Old Dominion University. Her work and publications have received extensive media coverage. A native of Virginia Beach, she is a Filipino American and a mother, grandmother, and wife.