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Josephine Wang joined the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) in 1983, assuming positions of increasing responsibility, and in 2004, becoming the Corporation’s General Counsel and Secretary. Before joining SIPC, Ms. Wang was an attorney with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a federal government agency regulating the commodity futures and options markets in the United States and protecting futures investors against abusive practices. While on the staff at SIPC, Ms. Wang had primary responsibility for some of the larger liquidations under the Securities Investor Protection Act (“SIPA”), including those of Bevill Bresler & Schulman, Inc. and First Interregional Equity Corporation, in New Jersey, and Stratton Oakmont, Inc., in New York. On behalf of SIPC, she briefed and argued cases at all levels of the federal court system. As General Counsel, Ms. Wang is the chief legal officer for SIPC, overseeing a team of attorneys. Ms. Wang is the co-author of a comprehensive article examining the impact of stockbroker liquidations under SIPA on securities transfers (12 Cardozo Law Review 509 (1990)). She has served as a Director on the Board of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund; provided legal representation under pro bono clinics sponsored by the District of Columbia Bar; and been a speaker on behalf of SIPC in various programs, sponsored by, among others, the International Belgrade Stock Exchange; the American Bar Association; the Futures Industry Association Law and Compliance Division; the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation; the George Washington University Center for Law, Economics, and Finance; and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Ms. Wang received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and is a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and of several federal Courts of Appeals.