Erich Schwartz

Erich Schwartz is a former partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he led a global securities regulatory compliance and investigations practice. He studies emergent and potentially transformative technologies and considers the economic, social, regulatory and political issues associated with their adoption and commercialization. Among his technological interests are blockchain and decentralized finance, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and genetics.  Earlier in his law career, he was an enforcement lawyer at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, serving as assistant director of the Enforcement Division in Washington, D.C.

Over the course of his career, Schwartz has gained deep experience from various perspectives with the implementation of evolving regulatory approaches to a complex and vital industry during a period of extraordinary technological change that substantially transformed the industry. Those experiences inform his current interest in thinking about the application of transformational technologies in ways that advance societal interests, including identifying and developing solutions for problems at the intersection of technology, politics and law.