Michael Selig

Michael Selig currently serves as the Chief Counsel of the Crypto Task Force and Senior Advisor to the Chairman at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission since March 2025. Prior to this role, Selig worked as a Partner and Counsel at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP from April 2022 to March 2025 and held the position of Counsel and Associate at Perkins Coie LLP between April 2018 and April 2022. Selig also gained experience as an Associate at Reed Smith LLP and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP and worked in the Office of Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Selig earned a Doctor of Law (J.D.) with honors from The George Washington University Law School and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Philosophy and Political Science, magna cum laude, from Florida State University.