Financial Expert | Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee Member
Ms. Bair is the former President of Washington College from 2015 to 2017. She is also the former Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, where she served in that capacity from 2006 to 2011. She was a senior advisor to the Pew Charitable Trusts from 2011 to 2015. From 2002 to 2006 she was the Dean’s Professor of Financial Regulatory Policy for the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She also served as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2001 to 2002), Senior Vice President for Government Relations of the New York Stock Exchange (1995 to 2000), Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1991 to 1995), and as counsel to Kansas Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (1981 to 1988). She continues her work on financial policy issues as Chair Emeritus of the Systemic Risk Council, a public interest group which monitors progress on the implementation of financial reforms. She is also an accomplished author and has written several books on financial issues, including educational writings on money and finance for children. She is on the board of Bunge Limited, where she serves on the audit and risk committees and Fannie Mae, where she serves on the nominations, compensation and risk committees. In addition, she serves on the boards of the Volcker Alliance, a non-profit organization, and Paxos Trust Company, a fintech startup.