Ian McGinley

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Ian McGinley is an American lawyer and government official who served as the director of the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from February 2023 to January 2025.
In January of 2025 the CFTC announced he would depart the agency on Jan. 17.
As director of enforcement at the CFTC, McGinley oversaw the agency's enforcement program, including prosecutions, investigations, market surveillance, and the CFTC's whistleblower program. In this role, he announced new enforcement policies aimed at ensuring accountability and deterring misconduct in the derivatives markets. McGinley oversaw a team of 120 civil-enforcement attorneys who investigate fraud and misconduct in futures markets tied to energy and agricultural commodities, as well as digital assets that qualify as commodities.
During McGinley’s tenure, the Division of Enforcement established the CFTC as a premier law enforcement agency for digital asset enforcement; brought cases in emerging areas such as insider trading and voluntary carbon markets; created two new task forces - the Cybersecurity and Emerging Technology (including artificial intelligence) Task Force and the Environmental Fraud Task Force; increased transparency though issuing public guidance on penalties, admissions, and monitors/consultants; and created a new Surveillance and Enforcement Data Analytics Office to enhance the division’s surveillance and analytic capabilities.
== Career ==
Prior to joining the CFTC, McGinley was a partner at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where he handled criminal and regulatory matters. 
Before his time in private practice, McGinley spent more than a decade as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), where he held several leadership positions:
* Co-Chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit
* Member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force
* Chief of the Narcotics Unit
During his tenure at SDNY, McGinley led criminal prosecutions involving a wide range of white-collar crimes, including market manipulation, insider trading, cryptocurrency fraud, bank fraud, and cybercrime. McGinley’s time as a federal prosecutor included filing criminal charges against the leaders of OneCoin, a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud co-founded by Ruja Ignatova, who is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. 
== Education and Honors ==
McGinley received his J.D. from New York University School of Law. He also holds an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School and an M.Sc. with merit from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
Throughout his career, McGinley has received several awards, including:
* Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award
* True American Hero Award
* Federal Prosecutor of the Year (2015)
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