Brian Knight

Senior Counsel, Corporate Engagement Team, Alliance Defending Freedom

Topics:	Administrative Law & Regulation • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Culture • Federalism • Financial Services • Regulatory Transparency Project • Federalism & Separation of Powers

Topics:

Administrative Law & Regulation • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Culture • Federalism • Financial Services • Regulatory Transparency Project • Federalism & Separation of Powers

Brian Knight serves as senior counsel on the Corporate Engagement Team. His work focuses on issues of financial access, debanking, and preventing the power of the private sector from being weaponized against people of faith by both public and private actors.

Prior to joining ADF, Knight spent almost nine years at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, as both a senior research fellow and as a program director. In addition to managing a team of scholars, Knight’s research focused on financial regulation and the politicization of financial services. His research helped inform legislation and regulation at the federal and state level. He was also the lead author for two amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of National Rifle Association v. Vullo.

Before joining Mercatus, Knight worked at the Milken Institute, where he focused on financial technology. He was also an entrepreneur, co-founding a firm focused on compliance for crowdfunding.

Knight earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary.

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