Damon Silvers is a Senior Advisor to the AFL-CIO, the U.S. trade union confederation, and to the American Federation of Teachers, the AFL-CIO’s largest affiliated union.  He is also a Visiting Professor of Practice at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and Senior Counsel to the Jubilee Network, a coalition of religious labor and civil society organizations working to reform the international financial system.  Mr. Silvers was formerly the Policy Director and Special Counsel of the AFL-CIO, where he helped found the labor movement’s Capital Stewardship Program, and has served in a number of positions related to financial market policy in the U.S., including leading the Biden-Harris Transition Team’s work on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, serving as Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the U.S. bank bailout, and as a longtime member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee.  Mr Silvers is an attorney with degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.