Robert Bishop
Research Fellow
Robert E. Bishop is an associate professor at Duke Law School. His academic research focuses on corporate governance, securities, and markets more broadly.
Bobby brings a distinguished record of public service. Most recently, he was the senior advisor on financial markets at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he played an integral role on economic relief efforts. Before his doctoral studies, he advised a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to graduate school, he served in the Middle East and East Africa with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Bobby co-founded the International Institute of Law and Finance (IILF), a non-profit, non-partisan institution that seeks to bridge the gap between academic research and financial regulatory policy. IILF weighs in regularly on financial regulatory issues, including by providing financial regulators with summaries of academic research through formal comment letters on proposed SEC rules.
Bobby holds an AB from the University of Chicago, JD and MBA from Columbia University, and MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University. He clerked on the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Satyam Khanna
Research Fellow
Satyam Khanna is the President of Khanna Economic Strategies, a consulting firm. From 2023 to 2024, Satyam served as a Biden-Harris appointee and a lead architect of the EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, often called the national green bank. Prior to the EPA, Satyam was the SIEPR Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy, where he collaborated with Stanford faculty and students to explore critical issues in economic and financial policy. In 2021, he served as the SEC’s senior policy advisor for Climate & ESG, the agency’s first-ever official dedicated to integrating sustainability considerations into the federal securities laws, where he led the release of several path-breaking policies that significantly enhanced ESG-related accountability and transparency.
Previously, Satyam was a Resident Fellow at NYU Law’s Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance. He served on the Biden-Harris Transition on the financial regulators’ review team and the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee. Before NYU, Satyam served as Chief of Staff and Counsel to SEC Commissioner and NYU Professor Robert Jackson. He began his public service as a civil servant at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council.
Satyam started his legal career as an associate at McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He received his BA in biology and political science from Washington University in St. Louis and his JD from Columbia Law School.
Jacob Leibenluft
Research Fellow
Jacob Leibenluft is counselor to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He was recently a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he was the executive vice president for policy before joining NYU. Previously, he served as deputy director of the White House National Economic Council and as deputy assistant to the President under President Barack Obama. While at the White House -- where he worked from 2011 to 2012 and from 2013 through 2016 -- his portfolio included tax, fiscal policy, consumer protection, and job training, as well as strategic planning for the economic team.
During the 2016 general election campaign, Jacob served as senior policy adviser for Hillary for America, where he led former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s economic policy team. He also served as the economic policy director on former President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign. Jacob began his work in the Obama administration at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he worked in 2009 and 2010 during the height of the financial crisis. After the 2016 campaign, he also worked as a senior adviser at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He is a graduate of Yale University and the recipient of a Truman Scholarship and a Henry Luce Scholarship.
Andrew McKinley
Research Scholar
Andrew McKinley is pursuing his Juris Doctor at Stanford Law School while concurrently pursuing a Ph.D. in Accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he is a Deloitte Doctoral Fellow. His work focuses on the economic impacts of corporate and energy law. Before law school, Andrew spent several years working on proprietary and hedge fund trading desks. He was also a Research Scholar for the Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance at New York University School of Law.
Jessica L. Rollén
Research Scholar
Jessica L. Rollén is an Associate at Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP, where she started after receiving her JD/MBA at New York University School of Law and the Stern School of Business. At NYU, Jessica was a Lederman Fellow in Law and Economics, a Jacobson Scholar, a Kia Motors Scholar, and a Robert McKay Scholar. Prior to graduate school, Jessica was a Researcher at the NYU Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance, and Research Coordinator for Robert Jackson at Columbia Law School’s Program on Corporate Law and Policy. Jessica also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Haley Sylvester
Research Fellow
Haley has been a Research Fellow at the NYU School of Law Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance since 2020, during which time she has worked with politicians, advocates, and academics on complex issues in public and private markets. She previously served as counsel to Commissioner Robert J. Jackson, Jr. at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she advised the Commissioner on novel and complex issues in securities regulation, financial regulation, and corporate governance. Currently, she is a member of Pryor Cashman’s Private Client practice, where she provides structuring and taxation advice for clients including artists, actors, entrepreneurs, financiers, musicians, and more. Haley previously taught as a Clinical Fellow at the Filmmakers Legal Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she served as the copyright, fair use, and financing expert. After joining Pryor Cashman, she co-authored an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith. She began her legal career as a corporate finance associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Prashant Yerramalli
Senior Research Fellow
Prashant is currently a Vice President at Public, a retail investing platform where he works on operations and regulatory issues. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the NYU Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance. Previously, he was Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Chair at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Chair, Prashant served as a senior advisor to SEC Chair Gensler on all aspects of the agency’s mission, including enforcement, rulemaking, examinations, policy, and agency operations. He had previously been at the SEC serving initially as Counsel in the Division of Enforcement, Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement, Asset Management Unit, and then Counsel to Commissioner Robert Jackson.
Prashant started his legal career as an Associate at WilmerHale, then went on to clerk for the Hon. Naomi Reice Buchwald, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, before spending almost five years as an associate at Jenner & Block.
Prashant has an AB in Public Policy from Brown University where he graduated magna cum laude with honors and a JD from Harvard Law School where he graduated cum laude.
Jonathon Zytnick
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Professor Jonathon Zytnick joined Georgetown Law in fall 2022 as an Associate Professor of Law after serving as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute. He has published in the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and was awarded the Investment and Wealth Institute’s 2022 Governance Insight Award. Jonathon served as Counsel to Commissioner Robert Jackson at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, practiced in the corporate group at Paul, Weiss, and clerked for the United States Court of Federal Claims. He earned his PhD in Economics from Columbia University, where he was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and the Wilma Soss Fellowship for research relating to the democratic functioning of corporations and the rights of stockholders. Previously, he earned a JD from Yale Law School, where he was an Olin Fellow and recipient of the Philip Glusker Scholarship. His research focuses on business law and corporate finance, with an emphasis on shareholder voting.