Chris Lucas is the Chief of Staff and Counsel to Commissioner Summer Mersinger at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Prior to joining the CFTC, Chris was Co-Head of US Government Affairs at BNY Mellon. Before joining BNY Mellon, Chris served in the Senate in a variety of roles, first as Counsel to Small Business Committee Ranking Member Olympia Snowe (R-ME) where he was Senator Snowe’s lead staffer during the consideration of what became the Dodd-Frank Act. Later, Chris was Investigative Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA) where he focused on investigations and oversight into financial markets and financial market regulators and finally as Legislative Counsel to Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) where he was responsible for the Senator’s Banking Committee portfolio as well as a variety of other issues including agriculture.

Chris has a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.