Chairman The Federal Trade Commission

Andrew N. Ferguson is Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

Ferguson most recently served as solicitor general of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Prior to that position, he served as chief counsel to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, and as a Republican counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He also practiced law at several Washington, D.C. law firms. He earned his undergraduate degree and law degree from the University of Virginia. After law school, Ferguson clerked for Judge Karen L. Henderson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Deputy Director of Enforcement CPPA

Michael S. Macko is head of enforcement at the California Privacy Protection Agency. 

Before joining the Agency, Mike was in-house counsel at Amazon.com, Inc., where he managed government and regulatory investigations and litigation worldwide relating to consumer protection, advertising, tax, content moderation, data privacy, cloud computing, and financial regulation.

Mike spent a decade handling government investigations and litigation at the U.S. Department of Justice, serving as a Trial Attorney and as Assistant U.S. Attorney. Mike later served as a Trial Attorney in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission focusing on insider trading, breach of fiduciary duty, and disclosure violations. He began his career as a litigation associate at a large law firm. 

Mike graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and clerked for judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court.