Scott Lee is the Deputy Director and Senior Counsel of Digital Finance at the IIF. In this role, he covers digital assets and technologies reshaping the financial markets from a policy, legal, and regulatory perspective. His work covers topics related to financial innovation, securities and derivatives, payments, market infrastructure, systemic risk, regulation and regulatory supervision, resilient capital markets, and financial stability. Scott has over 20 years of financial regulatory experience. Prior to the IIF, Scott worked at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Congresswoman Mazie Hirono, Credit Suisse, Alston & Bird, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the House Financial Services Committee, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He was an original member of LabCFTC, was the SEC's lead counsel on the first Bitcoin ETF, worked on several crypto hearings on Capitol Hill, and helped release the CFTC's "Report on Decentralized Finance" and "Report on Responsible Artificial Intelligence." During his time in government, Scott expanded U.S. market access for licensed brokers in Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, and India by permitting them to sell foreign futures and options to U.S. customers. He was also the CFTC's co-lead Anti-Money Laundering representative.