SEC Biography:
Commissioner Laura Simone Unger

Ms. Unger was sworn in on November 5th, 1997 as a member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, for a term expiring June 2001. On February 12, 2001, President Bush designated Laura S. Unger Acting Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She served in that capacity until August 3, 2001.

Ms. Unger's main focus is the impact of technology on the securities industry. She is evaluating how the Commission can optimize the benefits of technology for the capital markets and investors, and has been working to implement recommendations made in her 1999 report to the Commission: "Online Brokerage: Keeping Apace of Cyberspace."

Soon after arriving at the Commission, Ms. Unger conducted a top-to-bottom review of the Commission's Enforcement Division. Ms. Unger also played a key role in the Commission's efforts to deal with Year 2000 remediation efforts by both public reporting companies and Commission-regulated entities.

Before being appointed to the Commission, Ms. Unger served as Securities Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs where she advised the Chairman, Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato. Prior to working on Capital Hill, Ms. Unger was an attorney with the Enforcement Division of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Unger received a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983, and a J.D. from New York Law School in 1987.

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