Biography

Graham Steele is an academic fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He will be joining the UNC School of Law faculty on July 1. Previously, he was the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. There, he served as an expert on financial institutions and regulations for the executive agency. Prior to his role at the Treasury Department, Steele was the director of the Corporations and Society Initiative at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he oversaw research focused on issues to promote “accountable capitalism” and governance. He also worked as a staff member at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has held a variety of legislative and policy roles, including as minority chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Steele graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.