Cheryl L. Evans is a director in the Milken Institute Center for
Financial Markets. She leads the Lifetime Financial Security Program.
Evans has led content development for
Pensions & Investments
magazine’s educational events, and she spent almost 10 years at CFA
Institute, the global association of investment professionals, where she
worked as a senior investigator in its enforcement program, was
appointed to help lead the research for its Future of Finance
initiative, and worked as a director in its educational events and
programs area. Evans also worked as special counsel at the US Chamber of
Commerce, focusing on securities litigation, capital markets, and
general litigation issues. She was a part of the Chamber’s economic
crisis working group, contributed to two capital markets studies, and
led a large economic study. She spent over 10 years at the US Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC), working as senior counsel in the
Division of Enforcement, where she was a member of the WorldCom team.
She also worked in the divisions of Trading and Markets and
Examinations. While working at the SEC, she was appointed to work as a
special assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia
handling criminal matters. She also served as a trial attorney in the
Commercial Litigation Section of the US Department of Justice and was a
judicial law clerk at the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Evans
is trained in wellness and life coaching and holds a BA degree in
psychology and sociology, a JD degree, and an LLM degree in
transnational business practice.
