Chris Meade

Christopher J. Meade is the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of BlackRock. A member of the Global Executive Committee, he leads the Legal & Compliance group.

Before joining BlackRock, Mr. Meade was the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. At Treasury, he provided legal and policy counseling to the Treasury Secretary and other senior Treasury officials on a wide range of issues relating to domestic finance, international economic affairs, terrorism finance, financial crimes enforcement, and tax policy. He was also the head of the Treasury Legal Division, a separate bureau within Treasury that includes all legal counsel of the Treasury Department. Mr. Meade received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the Treasury Department's highest honor.

Prior to his time at Treasury, Mr. Meade was a partner with the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where he was a member of the Litigation and Securities Departments, as well as the Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Group. While at WilmerHale, he argued four cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meade served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mr. Meade is a Trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society, a Life Trustee of NYU Law School, and a member of the Board of Mobilization for Justice, which provides legal services to low-income New Yorkers. He is also an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI).

Mr. Meade received his A.B. from Princeton University, magna cum laude, and his J.D. from NYU Law School, magna cum laude, where he was the first recipient of the Sinsheimer Service Scholarship and the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.