Eileen Harrington, Deputy Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Eileen Harrington, an attorney, is Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. The Bureau of Consumer Protection¹s mandate is to protect consumers from deceptive, unfair, or fraudulent practices. The Bureau enforces a variety of consumer protection laws enacted by Congress, as well as trade regulation rules issued by the Commission. Its actions include individual company and industry-wide investigations, administrative and federal court litigation, rulemaking proceedings, and consumer and business education. In addition, the Bureau contributes to the Commission¹s on-going efforts to inform Congress and other government entities of the impact that proposed actions could have on consumers. Prior to becoming Deputy Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Ms. Harrington was Associate Director for Marketing Practices. In that role, she led the Commission¹s consumer fraud law enforcement effort, and oversaw some of its most visible regulatory work, including the National Do Not Call initiative and implementation of the CAN-SPAM Act. She also led development of the Commission¹s Internet Fraud enforcement program and coordinated domestic and international law enforcement programs to detect and halt fraud against consumers on the Internet. Ms. Harrington joined the FTC as Assistant Director for Marketing Practices in 1987, and served as Associate Director for Marketing Practices from 1991 to 2005. In 1997, President Clinton conferred on Ms. Harrington the rank of Distinguished Executive in the Senior Executive Service for "sustained extraordinary accomplishments" in organizing and leading interagency enforcement, education and regulatory efforts to halt consumer fraud. In 2004, she was awarded a Service to America Medal for her work on the National Do Not Call Registry.