Commissioner Manisha Padi’s research and teaching focus on consumer finance, specifically savings, debt, and the impact of law and regulation on private markets. Her scholarship has appeared in the Michigan Law Review and the Boston University Law Review, as well as being cited by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to joining Berkeley Law, Commissioner Padi was a Bigelow Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. Padi holds a PhD in Economics from MIT and a JD from Yale.
Appointed by the Governor Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School