Michael Batlogg

Mike Batlogg currently serves as an Enterprise Risk Officer in the Office of the Chief Risk Officer at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Since 2013 he has been leading the implementation of enterprise risk management capabilities by designing and carrying out the requisite analysis, infrastructure, and governance structures. He has been a frequent speaker on the topic of ERM at peer Federal agencies and industry conferences. Mike also led and reshaped the agency’s operational internal controls program and the enterprise-wide business process re-engineering programs.

He joined the Federal government after serving four years as an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, providing analytics consulting for private- and public-sector financial services clients. Prior to this, Mike followed his passion through the field of foreign direct investment policy, exploring the challenges and opportunities national governments face when promoting or strategically restricting FDI. This included domestic and overseas jobs in the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Investment Security supporting the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), U.S. Development Finance Corporation (formerly Overseas Private Investment Corporation), U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service at United States Embassy in Bern Switzerland, and Deutsche Bank Research in Frankfurt. As a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in 2008-2009, Mike lived in Germany to work on cross-border investment policy issues.

Mike holds an M.A. in International Trade and Investment Policy from the Elliott School and global M.B.A. from the George Washington University. He earned his B.A. in economics and B.A. in IT and informatics from Rutgers University, where he graduated with highest honors and was elected into Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington, D.C.