Dr. David P. Weber

Dr. Weber teaches forensic accounting and fraud examination each semester at the Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University. He focuses on accounting organizational behavior, mainly, on why people engage in financial misconduct in the workplace. Weber is spearheading Salisbury's fraud examination experiential learning program, in which students assist in actual investigations and prosecutions of financial crime on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. He is a licensed attorney, forensic accountant, certified fraud examiner, and registered private investigator. In September 2022 and August 2023, the United States government awarded Weber a multi-million dollar grant to support the fraud examination experiential learning program. In large part due to his efforts to combat elder financial exploitation, Dr. Weber was named the 2024 Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Dr. Weber concluded his federal career as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Chief Investigator. Prior to this, he served as Chief of Enforcement Unit I of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Prior to the FDIC, Weber was the Special Counsel for Enforcement for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Treasury Department bureau responsible for supervision of the nation's banking system, and all foreign banks federally licensed to conduct business in the United States.