Eun Ah Choi serves as Senior Vice President, Global Head of Regulatory Operations and leads the U.S. and European Listing Qualifications, MarketWatch, and Regulatory Surveillance teams. In her role, Eun Ah is responsible for qualification of listed companies and continued compliance review with Nasdaq’s comprehensive listing standards, as well as managing Nasdaq’s trading surveillance program over equities and options markets to maintain an orderly marketplace and level playing field for investors, market participants, and listed companies. 

Eun Ah has more than 25 years of experience through private practice and public service, focusing on capital markets, securities regulation, corporate law, and market risk monitoring. As former in-house counsel at Willis Towers Watson and Northrop Grumman, Eun Ah has in-depth experience leading complex projects and managing legal matters related to domestic and international M&A, antitrust, venture capital, and strategic alliances. 

Eun Ah also served as a senior executive at the Securities and Exchange Commission, overseeing a wide range of business operations and regulatory policy initiatives, as well as risk monitoring and data analytics related to the asset management industry. Prior to joining the SEC, Eun Ah was a partner at Hogan Lovells where she represented publicly and privately held companies, boards of directors and investment banks in a broad range of securities law matters, capital raising transactions, M&A, and corporate governance topics. Eun Ah started her career on Wall Street at Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

Eun Ah received her Bachelor of Science in International Economics and Juris Doctor, both magna cum laude, from Georgetown University. She also studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.