--- title: Donald Trump Names Carl Icahn As Regulatory Reform Adviser description: President-elect Donald Trump is naming Carl Icahn to be a special adviser on issues regarding regulatory reform. canonical: https://time.com/4613477/donald-trump-carl-icahn-adviser/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-21T22:56:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:26:15.750Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Chooses Carl Ichan as Special Adviser on Regulatory Reform og:description: Icahn is one of the nation's richest men og:url: https://time.com/4613477/donald-trump-carl-icahn-adviser/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b2c5f7b81bf4f40/6988b3bacd1bba3d56703754/carl-icahn-donald-trump-adviser.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Delivering Alpha - Season 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Chooses Carl Ichan as Special Adviser on Regulatory Reform twitter:description: Icahn is one of the nation's richest men twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b2c5f7b81bf4f40/6988b3bacd1bba3d56703754/carl-icahn-donald-trump-adviser.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Chooses Carl Icahn as Special Adviser on Regulatory Reform > Sponsored content. 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Heidi Gutman—NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images by [Reuters](https://time.com/author/reuters/) ## Reuters Dec 21, 2016 10:56 PM UTC Billionaire Carl Icahn will advise Donald Trump on rescinding what the activist investor called “excessive regulation” on U.S. businesses, the president-elect’s transition team announced on Wednesday. Icahn will serve as a special adviser, not a federal employee, and he will not have any specific duties, Trump’s team said in a statement. He will not take a salary for his service, a transition aide said. But the pick could draw scrutiny because Icahn, whose major investments include insurer American International Group and oil refining business CVR Energy, could play a key role in shaping rules meant to police Wall Street and protect the environment. Icahn has been helping the Trump team weigh candidates to be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, people familiar with the issue said. Current chair Mary Jo White will leave the agency in January. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which overseas the derivatives market, also has vacancies. As of last week, candidates to replace White included Paul Atkins, a former SEC commissioner who is part of Trump’s transition team, and Debra Wong Yang, a former federal prosecutor, a source familiar with the matter said. A transition spokeswoman said this week no decision had been made yet. Icahn has said the 2010 Dodd-Frank banking law “went too far,” and has been a loud critic of the U.S. biofuels program that requires oil companies to use renewable fuels like ethanol. “It’s time to break free of excessive regulation and let our entrepreneurs do what they do best: create jobs and support communities,” Icahn said in the transition team statement. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4613477/donald-trump-carl-icahn-adviser/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4613477/donald-trump-carl-icahn-adviser/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Chooses Carl Icahn as Special Adviser on Regulatory Reform","datePublished":"2016-12-21T22:56:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:26:15.750Z","description":"Icahn is one of the nation's richest men","url":"https://time.com/4613477/donald-trump-carl-icahn-adviser/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b2c5f7b81bf4f40/6988b3bacd1bba3d56703754/carl-icahn-donald-trump-adviser.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Reuters","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/reuters/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b2c5f7b81bf4f40/6988b3bacd1bba3d56703754/carl-icahn-donald-trump-adviser.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Delivering Alpha - Season 2016","caption":"Carl Icahn, Icahn Enterprises Chairman during his keynote at the 6th annual CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at the Pierre Hotel in New York.","creditText":"Heidi Gutman—NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4613477/donald-trump-carl-icahn-adviser/","name":"Donald Trump Chooses Carl Icahn as Special Adviser on Regulatory Reform"}}]}] ```