Speakers 2026 Edition

Prior to becoming Commissioner, he served as an SEC detailee to both the legislative and executive branches, most recently as securities counsel to Ranking Member Pat Toomey on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Commissioner Uyeda also served on detail as a policy advisor to senior leadership at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2017-2018 and the U.S. Department of Labor in 2020. Commissioner Uyeda has been with the SEC since 2006, serving as Senior Advisor to Chairman Jay Clayton, Counsel to Commissioners Michael S. Piwowar and Paul S. Atkins, and Assistant Director and Senior Special Counsel in the Division of Investment Management.
Before joining the SEC, Commissioner Uyeda served as Chief Advisor to the California Corporations Commissioner, the state’s securities regulator, having been appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004. Earlier in his career, he worked as a corporate and securities attorney at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart (now K&L Gates) in Washington, D.C. and O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles.
Commissioner Uyeda earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Georgetown University in 1992 and his law degree with honors from Duke University in 1995. He is the first Asian-Pacific American to serve as a Commissioner at the SEC.

She represented the Department of Labor (DoL) in implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). She was instrumental in important pension regulations, including the DoL’s Department’s 2016 rule extending Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) fiduciary duties to financial advisors to pension plans and retirement investors and the 2020 rules on ESG investments and proxy voting by pension plan fiduciaries. Ms. Borzi headed the U.S. delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Working Party on Private Pensions and Insurance from 2009-2017. From 1995-2009, Ms. Borzi was a research professor in the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and practiced law at a Washington, D.C. law firm. From 1979 to 1995, she was Pension and Employee Benefit Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Labor. She is a nationally recognized expert in pension and health benefits, the author of numerous articles and a frequent speaker on these issues both in the U.S. and globally. She graduated from Catholic Law where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and now serves on the law school’s Board of Visitors.

He serves as the Chief Speaker for Discipline of the Public Spending. He is a member of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers, and represents Minister of Finance at the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers. Jurand Drop is an economist, public servant and academic lecturer. He graduated from the Cracow University of Economics, faculty of International Economic Relations. His master's thesis analysed the theory of the optimum currency areas in the European context. During his studies he made an internship at the National Bank of Poland. In 1999-2005 he worked as a researcher and teaching assistant at the Department of Macroeconomics at the CEU. He held lectures on macroeconomics, mathematical economics and the European Monetary Union. He also held lectures at several private university-level schools. Upon passing the concurs for the European civil servant, he worked from 2005 to 2008 as an economist at the European Commission. He was involved in the implementation of the i2010 information society programme, the Lisbon Strategy economic reform program, and also in the preparations of the economic analyses in the Directorate-General for Information Society and Media. He participated in negotiations between the European Commission and EU Member States in economic reforms and the creation of operational programs in cohesion policy. In the years 2009-2011, he was employed at the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Warsaw. He served as the head of the Unit for Strategy and Coordination of National Programs in the Department of Information Society. He was responsible in the implementation of the reforms foreseen by the i2010 program by the Polish administration. He co-operated with ministries, local government administrations, as well as with stakeholders from the telecommunications and IT sectors. During the Polish Presidency in the Council of the EU in 2011, he served as the Councillor for Economic Analyses in the Coreper-II Team at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union in Brussels. Among other assignments, he represented Poland in the Task Force for Greece that dealt with the economic crisis in that country. In the years 2012-2015, he served as the Counsellor for the telecommunications and information society. He represented Poland in the Council Working Parties for telecommunications and postal services, for cybersecurity, and periodically also for protection of personal data and for radio and telecommunications equipment. In 2015, he became Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Administration and Digitization responsible for digitization policy, telecommunications, cybersecurity and e-government. In 2020-2023, he worked again for the European Commission as the Country Coordinator for Finland, Lithuania and Poland in the Directorate-General for Telecommunications Networks, Content and Technology in the European Commission. He was responsible for, among others, supporting these three countries in running policies on telecommunications, cybersecurity, and on greening of the ICT. He participated in the process of setting up economic reforms, including negotiations regarding the Resilience and Recover Programs the implementation of the measures, as well as verification of the goals and milestones. He contributed to the Digital Agenda Reports on the three countries. He also participated in the European Semester procedures, in particular on the economic reforms. In 2023, he became Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Finance in Poland.

Upon graduation from Texas A&M in 1977, he worked for the USDA\FSQS Meat Grading Service for one year in Chicago and then joined Texas A&M AgriLife Extension as a CountyExtension Agent from April 1978 until April 1998 serving four counties in Texas (Guadalupe,Knox, Ector, and Brazos). For twelve of those twenty years, he served as the Brazos County Extension Agent-Agriculture. Currently, he provides leadership to three Extension/University Leadership programs: 1) the Governor Dolph Briscoe Jr. Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership (TALL) program for agriculture industry leaders in Texas, 2) the San Antonio Livestock Exposition - Leadership Extension for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension faculty and 3) the TALL Emerging Leaders International Exchange Program between Texas and Poland. In addition, he provides Extension International Outreach. In his spare time, he operates a registered Charolais beef cattle herd, and he is a certified National/International beef cattle judge. He has judged over 450 shows in ten states including every major livestock show in Texas. He enjoys working with youth and has coached 20 state qualifying 4-H Livestock Judging Teams and 10 national qualifying 4-H Livestock Judging Teams with one national title. He has been very involved in the community, the Texas A&M University System, and internationally with Poland. Currently, he serves on 10 association/foundation boards in Texas and Poland. One of his achievements locally was the establishment of the multi-million Brazos County Expo Complex that has made economic impact to the community since 2009 when it first opened and in 2023 it made a $45 million economic impact to Brazos County. In addition to Jim’s responsibilities with Texas A&M, he has been very active in building relationships, cooperation and collaboration between Texas/US and EU/Poland for over 13 years. Dr. Mazurkiewicz has been most active exchanging over 950 people between Texas and Poland working with people from the government, academia, and industry to include elected officials, university administrators, professors, researchers, students and businessmen & women, musicians, and farmers. He continues to work closely with the Polish Consulate in Houston, the Polish Investment & Trade Agency in Houston, Texas A&M University, and the State of Texas. The economic impact of his international work resulted in initiating a contact between the Texas Governor’s Office and the Polish Ministry of Energy to secure the first contract of LNG Gas from Cheniere Energy in Texas in 2017. This effort resulted in the purchasing of 1.72 billion cubic meters in 2017 and it increased each year to 6.04 billion cubic meters in 2022. The annual Polish purchases for 2022 were 36 deliveries from Texas/US, 18 from Qatar and 2 from Nigeria, and 1 from Trinidad/Tobago for a total of $31 billion in 2022. Poland has been free of purchasing Russian gas since April 23, 2022. In addition, Dr. Mazurkiewicz introduced #1 ranked grocer HEB in the US to Poland in 2017 with purchases of $5 million in 2017 to about $50 million in 2022.
To this day, Dr. Mazurkiewicz serves as an integral part of the Poland/Texas network in providing information, contacts, and business opportunities to promote economic development, educational opportunities and investment between Texas/US and Poland/EU. Since 2011, Dr. Mazurkiewicz has exchanged over 1,150 people between Texas and Poland.

Recognized by Chambers USA as “one of the most proficient attorneys on the scene,” J.C. leads
client work for financial services firms regarding a broad range of matters, including legislative
and regulatory issues, new financial products, business strategy, and corporate governance. In
addition, he regularly interfaces with financial regulators on a wide array of policy and
institution-specific issues.
J.C. was appointed by President George W. Bush to a six-year term as U.S. representative to the
World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). He was also
appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Elections and the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission Standards Board. He currently serves as chairman of the Board of Visitors of The
Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and is a member of the board the
Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum.
While serving as counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking and Governmental Affairs committees, J.C.
earned a reputation as a trusted advisor to Members of Congress in both chambers and on both
sides of the aisle. Clients value his knowledge and insights based upon years of experience and
long-standing relationships with government regulators and policymakers.
J.C. works out of the firm’s London, Brussels and Washington, D.C. offices. He is an avid skier,
bicyclist and swimmer and has competed in all 50 United States, 10 Canadian provinces and in
over 30 countries on six continents.

She served as CUA Law’s clinical program coordinator, an Associate Dean, and taught professional responsibility, criminal law, and the externship seminar, Becoming a Lawyer. She has taught, presented, or consulted in 35 countries regarding teaching legal ethics, legal profession reform, clinical education, and legal education generally. Professor Wortham was Chair of the Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee and the Legal Ethics Committee of the DC Bar, which has more than 100,000 members.

Chris was previously a Senior Managing Associate at Sidley Austin LLP, where he practiced appellate and regulatory litigation at all levels of the federal court system. Before Sidley, he served as a Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Ohio and clerked for the Honorable Alice M. Batchelder on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude from the Fordham University School of Law. At Fordham, Chris was a member of the Appellate Litigation Clinic and served as the Executive Notes Editor of the Fordham Law Review. He holds an undergraduate degree from The King's College in New York City, and currently serves on the college's Board of Trustees and as President of its Alumni Association.

Chris is licensed to practice in the District of Columbia, New York, and various U.S. district and circuit courts.

He began his career in the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1985. He left the SEC in 1988 for private practice in New York, after which he served as associate general counsel of an asset management firm before returning to the SEC in 1994 as Associate Director and Chief Counsel of the Division of Investment Management. In that role, he supervised the office primarily responsible for interpreting and establishing the Division’s positions under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. In 1997, he returned to private practice, joining Dechert, LLP as a partner. Since retiring, Mr. Murphy has served CUA’s Columbus School of Law as an Adjunct Professor, teaching Securities Regulation: Compliance and Introduction to Securities Law. He currently serves as the Director of the school’s Securities Law Program. He has also taught courses in American Business Organizations and American Securities Regulation as part of the CUA-JU American Law Program.