Kristin Johnson was Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on March 30, 2022. She is also a professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. Her scholarship and teaching explore regulation and private ordering of capital and credit markets. She is a recognized expert on financial market regulation, corporate governance, compliance, and risk management. Kristin Johnson's recent work examines the implications of emerging innovative technologies including distributed digital ledger technologies that enable the creation of digital assets and intermediaries and artificial intelligence technologies that target commercial and consumer financial transactions, transfers, and assessments.