Amanda Olear is the Acting Director of the Division of Market Oversight at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Ms. Olear is responsible leading a team of attorneys, analysts, and other professional staff who oversee derivatives platforms and swap data repositories.
Ms. Olear joined the CFTC in 2007 and has served in various leadership capacities, including most recently as the Director of the Market Participants Division since 2021. Ms. Olear began her tenure at the CFTC as an attorney-advisor in the then Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight with a focus on CPOs and CTAs. In 2013, she took on the role of Associate Director of the Managed Funds Section in the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight and served as the Deputy Director of Registration and Compliance from 2017 to 2021.
Ms. Olear joined the CFTC from Council, Baradel, Kosmerl & Nolan, P.A. in Annapolis, Maryland, where she focused on business entity formation and complex commercial litigation. Prior to that, Ms. Olear served as a law clerk to the Honorable Lynne A. Battaglia on the Maryland Court of Appeals. Coming from a long line of family farmers, she holds a JD, with honors, from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and a BA, summa cum laude, from McDaniel College.
Education
- JD, with honors, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, 2004
- BA, summa cum laude, Western Maryland College, 2001
