Peirce led the Financial Markets Working Group at the Koch-funded Mercatus Center before her SEC nomination. The pipeline (free-market think tank → SEC Commissioner) became a documented case in the post-2018 academic literature on advocacy-to-regulator capture.
No statutory-violation flags recorded against this transition.
No other documented transitions on file for this entity.
Open the Hester Peirce dossier for connections, donations, and other ledger rows on the same entity. Open the Securities and Exchange Commission dossier for everyone else who's revolved through that destination.
https://www.goblinhouse.net/revolving-door/14Goblin House. "Hester Peirce: Mercatus Center at George Mason University → Securities and Exchange Commission" (revolving-door transition). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 16, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/revolving-door/14.Sourced from public records and content-hashed; verify via /attestation, standard at /methodology.