Sheila Bair has had a long and distinguished career in government, academia, and finance. She is widely respected for her expertise in financial regulation, consumer protection, student debt, and cryptocurrency oversight. Ms. Bair currently serves on several corporate and fintech advisory boards while advocating for sensible policies that promote financial system stability and responsible lending practices.

Ms. Bair remains active on public policy issues as Senior Fellow at the Center for Financial Stability and Senior Advisor and Chair Emerita of the Systemic Risk Council. She provides frequent on-air commentary for major business networks, including CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance. She is a regular contributor to Financial Times and has published op-eds in a variety of other financial publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg.

Ms. Bair is an experienced corporate board member whose past governing boards include Bunge Ltd., Paxos, Thomson Reuters, Host Hotels, and Fannie Mae, where she served as the first woman chair. Her current advisory boards include Santander’s International Advisory Board, Ripple’s Stablecoin Advisory Board, Wealthfront’s Banking Advisory Board, and Jiko’s Advisory Board. She is also active in the nonprofit sector, serving as a founding director of the Volcker Alliance and a member of the FoolProof Foundation’s Walter Cronkite Committee. She is a trustee of the prestigious Economists for Peace and Security and a member of the International Advisory Council to China’s financial regulatory authority.

Ms. Bair served as the first woman President of Washington College from August 2015 to June 2017. Prior to that, she was Senior Advisor to The Pew Charitable Trusts from 2011 to 2015. Ms. Bair was also Senior Advisor to international law firm DLA Piper from 2014 to 2015. Ms. Bair was the Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2006 to 2011. 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 from 2001 to 2002, Senior Vice President for Government Relations of the New York Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2000, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1991 to 1995, counsel to the New York Stock Exchange from 1988 to 1990, and counsel to Senator Bob Dole from 1981 to 1988.

Ms. Bair is perhaps best known as Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2006 to 2011, when she steered the agency through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, working to bolster public confidence in the nation’s banking system. During her tenure, she received numerous awards and recognition for her leadership at the FDIC, including the JFK Library’s Profiles in Courage Award. She was twice named by Forbes as the second most powerful woman in the world and was dubbed the “little guy’s protector in chief” by Time. Time also placed her on the coveted Time 100 list of most influential people, profiling her on its cover with Elizabeth Warren and Mary Schapiro as one of the “New Sheriffs of Wall Street.”

Ms. Bair is a New York Times best-selling author, with her memoir of the financial crisis, Bull by the Horns. A longtime member of CNBC’s Financial Wellness Advisory Board, she has received numerous awards for her writing for children to promote financial literacy. Her publications include the picture book series Money Tales, which teaches children how to avoid financial pitfalls such as excessive borrowing (Billy the Borrowing Blue-Footed Booby), impulse buying (Princess Persephone’s Dragon Ride Stand), and “too good to be true” financial schemes (Shark Scam). She has also published a young adult book on the financial crisis, Bullies of Wall Street. Her newest book, How Not to Lose $1 Million, provides guidance to teens on how to avoid common money mistakes.