Brian G. Cartwright (born 1948) is a senior lawyer and former astrophysicist. From 2006 he was General Counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission of the USA.

Career

On January 3, 2006 the SEC Commission Chair Christopher Cox officially appointed ex-

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partner Brian G. Cartwright as its top lawyer, replacing

Giovanni Prezioso Giovanni Prezioso (December 23, 1957-February 28, 2023) became General Counsel of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in April 2002. Prezioso served in that post under three different chairmen; Harvey Pitt, William Donaldson, and Christopher ...

. Mr. Cartwright holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review and winner of the Sears Prize, given every year to the first and second-year students with the highest grade point averages. He served as law clerk to

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from 1981 to 1982. Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Cartwright was an astrophysicist graduating from

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, he earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the

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and worked as a research physicist at the

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at Berkeley’s space sciences laboratory. He published numerous articles in scholarly journals including the

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.Brian G. Cartwright, "The Origin of Fluorine, Sodium and Aluminum in the Galactic Cosmic Radiation", Astrophys. J., 169, 299, 1971.

Personal life

Brian Cartwright is married with three grown sons

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cartwright, Brian 1948 births Living people American lawyers Harvard Law School alumni Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

Career

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