Cyrus Amir-Mokri () was the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury Department. He resigned from Treasury in April 2014. Amir-Mokri was a senior legal and policy advisor to the Chairman of the

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. He participated in the legislative process that led to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act and the subsequent implementation through rulemaking. He also served as the agency's deputy representative to the

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and as liaison for inter-agency affairs. Amir-Mokri's previous experience in government was to serve as law clerk to Bruce M. Selya of the

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. Before serving in government, Mr. Amir-Mokri was a partner at the law firm of

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LLP, resident in its

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office. He concentrated in complex commercial litigation and participated in many of the firm's high-profile litigation matters. Currently he is working as General Counsel and Managing Director at

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in New York. Amir-Mokri is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is awarded for outstanding contributions by immigrants to the United States.

Personal life

Amir-Mokri has lived in the

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since 1981 since his family immigrated from Iran following the 1979

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. After attending Wayland Academy in

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for one year, Amir-Mokri attended

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, graduating in 1986 with a degree in biochemistry. Amir-Mokri then studied history at the

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, where he concentrated principally on diplomatic and on modern Middle Eastern history. A recipient of a

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dissertation year fellowship, he authored a doctoral dissertation on Iranian constitutional history. Upon completing his doctoral studies, Amir-Mokri attended the

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, from which he was graduated in 1995.

References

1964 births Harvard College alumni Iranian emigrants to the United States 20th-century American lawyers Living people People from Tehran Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom people United States assistant secretaries of the treasury University of Chicago Law School alumni Wayland Academy, Wisconsin alumni JPMorgan Chase people {{US-gov-bio-stub