Title: Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Age: 55

Education: J.D. degree from St. John's University School of Law (1968), B.A. from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College)

Background information: A former SEC general counsel, who has spent the last 23 years in private practice. Pitt is now under pressure due to the current investigations into Enron. When he was a lawyer he had all the 'Big Five' accounting firms - including Andersen - as clients. Read more