Raul Carrillo

Raúl Carrillo is an Academic Fellow, Lecturer in Law, and the 2024-2025 Kellis E. Parker Teaching Fellow. Raúl’s scholarship focuses on the legislation and regulations governing finance and technology.

Current research topics include the infrastructure of public finance, the regulation of partnerships between banks and technology companies, and government efforts to combat fraud and money laundering in the cryptocurrency and digital asset sector. 

Before his fellowship, Raúl was an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School and a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. He also worked as the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, an international network of scholars, practitioners, and students developing proposals to build a more just, equal, and sustainable future.

Before turning toward academia, Raúl was Policy Counsel at the Demand Progress Education Fund and a Fellow at the Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. Previously, he worked as a Staff Attorney at New Economy Project, providing free legal services to low-income New Yorkers. He has also served as Special Counsel to the Enforcement Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He regularly advises public interest groups and policymakers and testifies before Congress.

Raúl serves on the Executive Committee of the National Jobs For All Network, the Board of the Demand Progress Education Fund, the Advisory Board of the Progressive Talent Pipeline, and the Advisory Council of The Action Lab.