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People at SCEPA
SCEPA Advisory Board
Bevis
Longstreth
Retired Partner
Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
Bevis Longstreth
is a Retired Partner with Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP. He is a graduate
of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He served for two
years in the Marine Corps. For twenty years, until July 1981, when
President Reagan appointed him as the 60th Commissioner of the Securities
and Exchange Commission, Longstreth practiced law with the New York
firm Debevoise, where he was admitted to partnership in 1970. In
February 1984, after his resignation from the SEC, Longstreth returned
to Debevoise and the practice of corporate, finance, banking and
securities law. Longstreth served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia
Law School from 1994 to 1999. He is a frequent speaker and has lectured
on various securities and corporate law topics, has written numerous
articles on business-related subjects, and is the author of Modern
Investment Management and the Prudent Man Rule (Oxford University
Press, 1986). Longstreth serves on the Boards of Directors of College
Retirement Equities Fund and AMVESCAP plc. He is a former member
of the Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange and of
the National Adjudicatory Council of NASD. He served on the Panel
on Audit Effectiveness appointed by the Public Oversight Board.
For many years he served on the Pension Finance Committee of The
World Bank. He serves as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the
Rockefeller Family Fund and Chairman of the Investment Committee
of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, where he is also a trustee. Longstreth
also serves on the board of The New School, the Advisory Board of
the Center for Public Integrity, and the Investment Committee of
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.
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