George Dowd is an attorney and also provides subject matter expert consulting services related to the foreign exchange, futures, cryptocurrency, and metals markets. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross, a J.D. from the DePaul University College of Law, and is admitted to practice law in Illinois.
George’s background includes extensive industry-side market experience. He was with Société Générale (via predecessor firms Fimat and Newedge) from 2007 through 2015, where he was Head of the Chicago Foreign Exchange Desk and Head of Foreign Exchange Sales for the Americas. Prior to 2007, he established the Spectrum Currency Program at Spectrum Asset Management, and held senior foreign exchange roles at JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Credit Suisse. He served on the Board of Directors of the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association in 2020 and 2021, and is the primary author of "Digital Assets, Cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain" (IICLE®, 2022).
George has testified as an expert in proceedings before the National Futures Association, FINRA, the London Court of International Arbitrations, and the Federal Court of Australia. He has given presentations, or lectured, at the People’s Bank of China (Shanghai), the DePaul University Graduate School of Business, the National Futures Association, and the Chicago Bar Association's Futures and Derivatives Committee. He has appeared frequently on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and the Fox Business Network.
