Kevin Warsh
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Kevin Maxwell Warsh April 13, 1970 Albany, New York U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Lauder |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Kevin Maxwell Warsh (born April 13, 1970), is an American financier, lawyer, government official and academic. During and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Warsh was a governor of the Federal Reserve System, and acted as the central bank's primary liaison to Wall Street. He is a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a member of the Group of Thirty, and a former steering committee member of the Bilderberg Group.
Warsh was born in Albany, New York, and grew up nearby, attending Shaker High School in Latham. He received a BA in public policy from Stanford University in 1992 with a concentration in economics and political science. He went on to study law at Harvard Law School and received a JD (cum laude) in 1995. He also took coursework in market economics and debt capital markets at Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management.
From 1995 to 2002, Warsh worked for Morgan Stanley in New York City, rising to vice president and executive director in the company's mergers and acquisitions department.
From 2002 to 2006, Warsh was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Executive Secretary of the National Economic Council. His primary areas of responsibility included domestic finance, banking and securities regulatory policy, and consumer protection He advised the President and senior administration officials on issues related to the U.S. economy, particularly fund flows in the capital markets, securities, banking, and insurance issues. Warsh participated in the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and served as the administration's chief liaison to the independent financial regulatory agencies.
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