Michael A. Dawson
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Critical Infrastructure Protection
and Compliance Policy
Michael A. Dawson was sworn in on February 3, 2003 as Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance
Policy.
As Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dawson is responsible for assisting
the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions on the following:
Working with the private financial services sector to improve
the protection of the nation’s critical financial infrastructure,
Working to maintain appropriate protections for non-public personal
financial information
Developing appropriate regulations to protect the nation’s
financial system from abuse by money launderers and terrorist
financiers, and
Serving as the Department’s principal liason with the
Office of Homeland
Security on critical infrastructure protection issues.
Dawson supervises a dedicated team of professional staff, including
the newly-created Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Dawson previously served as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary
of the Treasury from April 2001 to February 2003. Prior to joining
the Treasury Department, Dawson served as Chief of Staff at FOLIOfn,
a web-based broker-dealer that was the first to allow investors
to buy and trade customizable baskets of equities. Dawson also worked
for the Washington-based law firm, Covington & Burling. In addition,
he clerked for Judge James L. Oakes on the United States Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Dawson holds a B.A. in Economics from Williams College, an M. Phil.
in Economics from Cambridge University, and a J.D. from the Yale
Law School.
