Benjamin Tecmire

Ben Tecmire is a Managing Director and the Head of Regulatory Affairs in BlackRock’s Government Affairs and Public Policy group. He leads BlackRock’s engagement with federal policymakers, and other external stakeholders, on policy priorities that are important to BlackRock and its clients. He focuses on a broad range of policy issues related to financial stability, issuer disclosure, registered funds, private funds and private markets, digital assets, artificial intelligence, market structure and retirement.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Ben served in a number of roles at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including as senior counsel to the Director of the Division of Investment Management; senior counsel in the Division’s Investment Adviser Regulation Office and the Private Funds group; and in the Office of Municipal Securities. Ben was a member of the SEC rulemaking team responsible for Regulation Best Interest, Form CRS, and the Investment Adviser Fiduciary Duty Interpretation, and also worked on inter-agency rulemakings including with the OCC, FDIC, CFTC and Federal Reserve Board on the 2020 changes to the Volcker Rule. Ben also previously served in the Market Regulation and Rulemaking group of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB), where he drafted many of the post-Dodd Frank municipal advisor rules. Prior to law school, Ben worked in private fund operations.

Ben holds a B.A. in political science from Columbia University, a J.D. from the George Mason University School of Law, and an LL.M. in securities and financial regulation from the Georgetown University Law Center. Ben is also a member of the New York and DC bars.