Joseph Engelhard is the Head of Private Credit and Asset Management Policy, Americas for AIMA, a trade association representing the global alternative investment industry. Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President at MetLife, where he led their Global Regulatory Policy Group, and at Capital Alpha Partners, where he advised investors on macro and financial regulatory policy developments. Mr. Engelhard is a veteran of financial regulatory policy issues, having held a wide variety of senior-level positions in the U.S. government, including General Counsel of the Joint Economic Committee, Senior Counsel at the House Financial Services Committee, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade and Investment Policy at the U.S. Treasury. Mr. Engelhard is a graduate of St. Louis University and Fordham Law School and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.