Troy A. Paredes is a professor at the Washington University School of Law in St Louis, Missouri. He is a co-author (beginning with the fourth edition) of a multi-volume securities regulation treatise with Louis Loss and Joel Seligman entitled Securities Regulation and is presently on leave from his academic positions, having been appointed by President George W. Bush to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, where he was sworn in on August 1, 2008.