Won S. Shin is an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of Appeals in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In that role, he oversees the office’s briefing and argument in criminal appeals and advises other prosecutors on legal issues arising in their investigations and prosecutions. He was previously a member of the office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit and is a recipient of the FinCEN Director’s Law Enforcement Award for Cyber Threats. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Shin was an Assistant Solicitor General at the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where he briefed and argued appeals on behalf of the state. Before entering public service, he was a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC. He began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Shin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Prior to law school, he worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Shin has taught legal writing at Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Bar Association of New York.