Timothy George "Tim" Massad is an American lawyer and government official who is Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Formerly he was Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability at the United States Department of the Treasury, where he oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program created by the U.S. government in response to the financial crisis of 2007?08. Massad earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in 1978. After stints working for Ralph Nader and the AFL?CIO, he returned to Harvard to earn a law degree in 1981. He then began a 25-year career as a corporate lawyer at the firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he became an expert on corporate finance and derivatives. Massad briefly joined the staff of TARP's Congressional Oversight Panel before moving to the Office of Financial Stability as chief counsel. In September 2010 he was named acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability. The U.S. Senate confirmed him to the position in June 2011. In November 2013, President Barack Obama nominated him to be CFTC chairman. The Senate confirmed him in June 2014. 

July 30th, 1956 in New Orleans (Age 68)