Robert Khuzami

Robert S. Khuzami
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Education	Juris Doctor
Alma mater	University of Rochester Boston University

Robert S. Khuzami (born August 2, 1956) is the recent past director of the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He is a former United States federal prosecutor and general counsel of Deutsche Bank AG.

Khuzami was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Rochester, New York. The son of a Lebanese Christian immigrant father and an American mother, he grew up in an artistic family. His parents are professional ballroom dancers and had a dancing school, his sister is the muralist Vicki Khuzami and his brother Richard Khuzami is a musician,producer and community activist in New York City. After taking a few years off after high school, Khuzami enrolled in college, transferring to the University of Rochester where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude in 1979. He received a juris doctor degree in 1983 from Boston University School of Law. From 1983 to 1984, he was a law clerk for John R. Gibson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Kansas City, Missouri and then went to work at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft as a litigation associate.