Roger Machlis

Roger Machlis is a Lecturer in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department and teaches Law and Social Values in the undergraduate program at the Wharton School. He previously taught Responsibility in Business in the MBA program at the Wharton School in Spring 2017, 2018, and 2019. He taught Professional Responsibility and Leadership in the undergraduate program at the NYU Stern School of Business in Fall 2022.

Mr. Machlis has practiced business law for over 35 years. He recently retired as a Managing Director and the General Counsel of Credit Suisse’s Global Asset Management business (CSAM). As General Counsel, Mr. Machlis was a member of the CSAM Management Committee and advised the CEO and management team on numerous strategic business matters; major transactions and new products; significant legal, regulatory, compliance, reputational and employment matters; changes in law and regulation; and public policy matters. He periodically represented Credit Suisse at meetings with foreign and US regulators.

Prior to Credit Suisse, Mr. Machlis was a senior internal counsel at Citibank and a law firm associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He was an accountant at KPMG prior to law school.

Mr. Machlis received a J.D. from New York University School of Law and graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. from the Wharton School.