Nicholas Elliot is the Acting Director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Mr. Elliot serves as the chief advisor to the CFTC Chairman on matters before the U.S. Congress and serves as the Commission’s official liaison with Congressional members, federal agencies, and the Administration.
Mr. Elliot served as then-Commissioner Pham’s Confidential Assistant and Policy Advisor and as the Alternate Designated Federal Officer of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee. Previously, Nicholas spent nearly four years working for U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), first on his campaign for the U.S. Senate and then in his official office in Washington, D.C. On Capitol Hill, Mr. Elliot worked on the Senator’s financial services and banking portfolio, where he advanced the Senator’s work on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, as well as assisted with Senator Hagerty’s legislative priorities. This included, among others, the Depositor Protection Act of 2023, the Digital Trading Clarity Act of 2022, and the Communist China’s Digital Currency – National Security Risks Act, which became law in 2022.
Mr. Elliot is a graduate of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business where he received a BS in Business Administration with a major in Finance and a minor in Mandarin.
Education
- BS, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business
