J. Christopher Giancarlo (born May 12, 1959) is an American attorney and former business executive who served as 13th chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

He has four brothers, including Charles Giancarlo, an entrepreneur, investor, and former senior executive of Cisco Systems and board chairman of Avaya.

At Skidmore, Giancarlo was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, of the Winter Term Scholarship Committee and a contributing editor to Politea magazine.

Giancarlo was responsible for GFI's strategic transactions and relationships, including mergers and acquisitions, equity finance, investment banking, strategy development, analyst and investor communications and government relations.

[7] In October of that same year, Giancarlo also testified before the House Committee on Agriculture on Legislative Proposals Amending Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act.

[9] Giancarlo was nominated by President Barack Obama on August 1, 2013, to serve as a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Following service in the US government, Giancarlo took on several roles: senior counsel to the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher,[15] chairman of Common Securitization Solutions LLC,[16] a joint venture between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, senior advisor of social trading company eToro,[17] and a member of the advisory board of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.

His banjo playing can be heard on the album "Grand Reveal" by British recording artist Mike Marlin that was released in April 2013.