Stephen R. Kroll
Stephen Kroll has worked in both the public and private sectors for four decades.
He is now a Senior Advisor in the Office of Research and Analysis of the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board.
Mr. Kroll served as Democratic Special Counsel to the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the United States Senate from September 2001-January
2007 and again from October 2011 to June 2013. He was a member of the team that
drafted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and was the staff member with primary
responsibility for the counter-money laundering and financial terrorism provisions of the
USA PATRIOT Act. He continued to work on issues relating to both pieces of
legislation, as well as, most recently, on Iranian sanctions issues. In 2009-10, he was
Chief Counsel and a Deputy Executive Director of the Congressional Oversight Panel on
the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
From 1990-2001, Mr. Kroll was the founding Chief Counsel of the Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury. He served as an
Assistant to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1984-86.
Mr. Kroll has taught both law and international relations and related aspects of
government operations. He was Associate Professor Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law of Yeshiva University from 1979-83, and he was a member of the faculty
of the School of International Service of American University from 2007-09.
Mr. Kroll practiced tax, employee benefits, and corporate law in New York City
from 1972-79 and in Washington D.C. from 1986-90.