Cheryl L. Evans

Cheryl L. Evans is a Director in MI Finance at the Milken Institute. She leads the Lifetime Financial Security Program. Evans frequently discusses a variety of issues related to financial security and retirement savings and she has been cited in publications such as U.S. News and World Report, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg News, MarketWatch, CBS News, Pensions & Investments, McKnight’s Senior Living, and TheStreet. Her program is focused on lifetime income, financial education, retirement plan structures, early wealth building, how AI and FinTech are shaping long-term saving, and the financial security of women, among other issues. She is the co-author of Shifting the Retirement Paradigm: Moving Towards Lifetime Financial Security. She has also written for the Work Megatrends Section of AARP’s International Website. Evans has worked at CFA Institute where she worked in its enforcement program, helped lead the research for its Future of Finance global initiative, and worked in its educational programs area where she also spoke on issues faced by women in finance and law. Evans worked as special counsel at the US Chamber of Commerce. 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 11 years working as senior counsel at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). At the SEC, she worked in the Division of Enforcement where she was a member of the WorldCom case team, served as the liaison to the Office of International Affairs, and was a part of a criminal task force. She also worked in the division of Trading and Markets and the division of Examinations at the SEC. She was appointed to work as a special assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia prosecuting general criminal cases. Evans also served as a trial attorney in the Commercial Litigation Section of the US Department of Justice, and she served as a judicial law clerk at the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Evans hold a BA degree from Marietta College, a JD degree from Rutgers Law School, and LLM degree in transnational business practice from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law and Salzburg Law School in Austria. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar.