WASHINGTON, D.C.— For the fifth year in a row, Washingtonian Magazine has selected Dennis Kelleher, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Better Markets, as one of the Most Influential People in Washington. “With a new administration now in place, these power players’ expertise and strategic insight are especially crucial as they navigate shifting priorities and relationships across the capital,” Washingtonian says of the honorees.

Washingtonian describes Kelleher as “a vocal advocate of robust financial regulations” and that he “works with policymakers to strengthen investor protections and instill integrity in the financial market.” In the past year, Kelleher has been busy detailing how Trump’s dangerous deregulation is going to lead to a crash, speaking truth to power in front of the crypto industry, standing up for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and exposing the mendacious bait and switch of billionaire campaign contributors.

Since co-founding it in 2010, Kelleher has built Better Markets into a powerful and effective counterweight to the financial industry across Washington’s economic and financial policymaking. Leading a team of experts in economics, finance, litigation, banking, securities, commodities, and derivatives, Kelleher has been fighting for an economy that works for all Americans and a financial system focused on wealth creation, not wealth extraction.

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Better Markets is a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization founded in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to promote the public interest in the financial markets, support the financial reform of Wall Street and make our financial system work for all Americans again. Better Markets works with allies—including many in finance—to promote pro-market, pro-business and pro-growth policies that help build a stronger, safer financial system that protects and promotes Americans’ jobs, savings, retirements and more. To learn more, visit www.bettermarkets.org.