Bill Barker is a Senior Investment Analyst and Lead Advisor at The Motley Fool. Bill leads Firecrackers Recommendations and the microcap sleeve of the One Portfolio. Previously, he was an equity and fixed income portfolio manager at Motley Fool Asset Management; an attorney and advisor in The Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and a financial analyst at The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and a J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law.