Tracey Stern is the Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of CSE. She and her team are responsible for risk, legal and compliance matters relating to the exchange. She joined CSE after more than two decades at the Ontario Securities Commission where she led the team responsible for market structure policy and the regulation of exchanges and alternative trading systems. She has deep expertise regarding the Canadian and global market structure and regulatory environment, as a regulatory participant in most of the key market structure initiatives over the past 20 years and as Chair of IOSCO Committee 2 on the Regulation of Secondary Markets, a committee of global market structure experts. She is a member of the Master of Financial Innovation & Technology Advisory Board at Smith School of Business at Queen’s University and the co-author of A Framework for Responsive Market Regulation, published in 2019 by the University of Oxford Press.

She received her B.A in Economics from Western University and her J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School.