Chris Cox is a Senior Scholar in Residence at the University of California, Irvine, a Life Trustee of the University of Southern California, Chair of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee for Southern California and the Pacific, and a member of several nonprofit and for-profit boards in the health care, real estate, regulatory compliance, and technology industries. In 2020 he retired as president of Morgan Lewis Consulting LLC and as partner at the international law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. His 21-year career in private legal practice also included partnerships at Latham & Watkins LLP and Bingham McCutchen LLP.
During a 23-year Washington career, he was a White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the fifth-ranking elected leader in the House.
In addition, he taught federal income tax as a member of the faculty at Harvard Business School and founded a company that, during the Cold War, translated the Soviet Union’s daily newspaper, Pravda, into English for customers in 26 nations.
Mr. Cox holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and an honorary Ph.D. from Northeastern University. He and his wife Rebecca live in southern California and are the parents of three adult children.