Kenneth Feinberg

Kenneth R. Feinberg is a Washington, D.C. attorney and one of the nation's leading authorities on mediation and mass-claims compensation. He served as Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and as Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation, and he has designed and administered compensation programs for the Agent Orange litigation, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, GM's defective ignition switches, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub shooting, the Boeing 737 MAX crashes, and survivors of clergy abuse in the Archdiocese of New York and other Catholic dioceses. In 2025 he helped design Southern California Edison's compensation program for victims of the Eaton Fire. His books include What Is Life Worth? and Who Gets What, and his 9/11 work was dramatized in the 2021 film Worth.