Satyam Khanna is the SIEPR Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He joined Stanford after serving as the SEC's Senior Policy Advisor for Climate & ESG, the agency’s first-ever official dedicated to integrating ESG considerations into the federal securities laws. Previously he was Counsel to SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson and served on the staff of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Treasury Department. He began his legal career as an associate at the law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.