
LEE A. REINERS is a lecturing fellow at Duke University, an expert in financial regulation, podcast host, and frequent commenter in leading media outlets.
Lee Reiners is a lecturing fellow at the Duke Financial Economics Center and Duke Law, and a widely recognized thought leader on financial regulation. At Duke, Reiners has taught classes on FinTech Law and Policy, Cryptocurrency Law and Policy, Financial Regulatory Policy, Climate Change and Financial Markets, and Cybersecurity Law and Policy. His broad research agenda focuses on how new financial technologies and climate change fit within existing financial regulatory frameworks. Previously, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, first as an examiner of systemically important financial institutions and then as a senior associate within the executive office responsible for coordinating with international and domestic financial regulatory agencies. Reiners holds the chartered financial analyst designation and serves on the CFA Institute’s Capital Markets Policy Council. He is an Iraq War veteran.
In the News
"Bill that would allow banks to issue “stablecoin” cryptocurrency takes a step closer to becoming law,”
by Matt Levin - Marketplace, May 20, 2025
“SEC crypto roundtable begins work of regulatory overhaul,” Axios, March 21, 2025
by Brady Dale - Axios, March 21, 2025
“The Polarizing Crypto Executive Who Wooed His Way Into Trump’s Orbit”
by Alexander Osipovich, Vicky Ge Huang, and Amrith Ramkumar - Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2025