Robert J. Shapiro
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Robert J. Shapiro is co-founder and chairman of Sonecon, LLC, a private finance consultancy that has built a reputation warning of the dangers of naked short selling. Previously he was undersecretary of commerce for economic affairs in the administration of President William J. Clinton, and is a senior fellow of the Progressive Policy Institute.
In his Commerce Department position, he oversaw the major statistical agencies of the United States, including the Census Bureau while it carried out the 2000 decennial census.
Shapiro currently serves as the Co-Chairman of the American Task Force Argentina, a group formed in November of 2006 to encourage the Argentine Government to repay more than $20 billion in delinquent sovereign debt.
He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an A.B. from the University of Chicago.
