Madiha Zuberi is a senior counsel in the Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies Unit, Los Angeles Regional Office. Since joining the SEC in 2021, Ms. Zuberi has obtained specialized knowledge regarding the application of federal securities laws to emerging technologies such as crypto transactions, blockchain technologies and disclosures and controls issues with respect to cybersecurity. Prior to joining the SEC, she was an attorney at BakerHostetler in the New York and Los Angeles offices where she primarily severed as counsel to Irving H. Picard, the Trustee liquidating the Bernie Madoff estate. Alongside her legal career, Ms. Zuberi has devoted much of her time to increasing diversity within the legal community. She is a co-founder of the Muslim Bar Association of New York (MuBANY) and the Muslim Bar Association of Southern California (MBASC), for both of which she served in leadership for many years. She earned her B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and her J.D. from New York Law School.