Susan Baker

Susan L. Baker joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in January 2018 as the Deputy Director of the Office of Complex Financial Institutions (OCFI) responsible for international planning and outreach. She provides strategic leadership to OCFI’s cross-border engagement to help implement the systemic resolution provisions of the Dodd Frank Act. She has represented the FDIC in a range of international endeavors from firm-specific crisis management groups, to bilateral policy dialogues with the European Union and United Kingdom, to multilateral policy discussions in the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Resolution Steering Group.     

In 2017, Susan served as the U.S. Treasury’s senior advisor on international financial regulatory policy issues and represented Treasury in a number of international venues, including the FSB committees covering financial sector vulnerabilities, resolution policy, and standards implementation. From 2013 to 2017, she served as the Director of the Office of International Banking and Securities Markets, managing the Treasury team covering international aspects of U.S.  regulatory reform, multilateral  financial regulatory issues, and various bilateral regulatory dialogues. Susan represented Treasury on the FSB Resolution Steering Group and was the overall U.S. coordinator for the IMF’s 2015 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) review of the U.S. financial regulatory regime.

Previously, Susan served as Treasury’s Financial Attaché for Europe (2011-2013 based in Brussels) and for Southeast Asia (2007-2009 based in Singapore) where she engaged private and public sector officials in the region on the full range of Treasury’s macro-economic, financial sector, and AML-CFT issues. She also served as the Deputy Director of the Office of International Banking and Securities Markets (2009-2011) where she led the team responsible for multilateral financial regulatory issues, including work in the G-20 process and the FSB, and covered Western European financial sector issues, including the U.S.-EU  Financial  Markets  Regulatory  Dialogue. She joined Treasury in 2004 as a senior international economist and was responsible for analyzing financial sector issues in China, Japan, and Australia as well as coordinating U.S. policies on a variety of financial regulatory issues including corporate governance, hedge funds, credit rating agencies, derivatives, and insolvency systems.

Prior to joining Treasury, Susan’s wide range of public and private sector experience includes five years as an international equity fund manager and two years as a sell-side banking analyst in Indonesia during the Asian financial crisis. She was also a policy advisor -- with a primary focus on banking and corporate restructuring policy -- for the Indonesian government, USAID, and the World Bank.

Susan has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard and a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.

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