Damon Silvers is the former Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and currently serves as special advisor to the AFL-CIO and AFT. He is also a visiting professor at University College London and Newcastle University.
Silvers has served on a pro bono basis as a special assistant attorney general for the state of New York, and as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board User Advisory Council, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Corporate Governance Task Force, Investor Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department’s Financial Research Advisory Committee, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group and its Investor Advisory Group.
Silvers served as the deputy chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program from 2008 to 2011. Also, Silvers served as the chair of the Competition Subcommittee of the U.S. Treasury Department Advisory Committee on the Audition Profession and as a member of the Treasury Depart Investor’s Practice committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.