Randall Dodd is the Director of the Financial Policy Forum in Washington D.C., a non-profit educational research institution for the study of financial markets, financial market regulation and macroeconomic policy. Mr. Dodd is an economist with 20 years of teaching experience at the university level and 12 years of experience working on economic and financial policy at the U.S. Congress, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and presently at the Derivatives Study Center. He has a PhD in Economics from Columbia University.