Speaker Spotlight: Sheila Bair

Featured in Time’s “Top 100” list and the Wall Street Journal’s “The 50 Women to Watch,” Sheila Bair is a leading domestic and global expert in finance and economics. As Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2006 to 2011, she steered the agency through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, working to bolster public confidence in the nation’s banking system.

Bair’s long and distinguished career in government, academia, and finance has found her widely respected for her expertise in financial regulation and consumer protection. She was also acknowledged by Forbes as the “second most powerful woman in the world.”

Recently, Ms. Bair has been providing commentary focused on regional bank challenges, but she also participated in an interview with Neil Cavuto about another area of financial distress that she is passionate about: the U.S.’s broken federal student loan system.