Greg Baer

Biography

Greg Baer serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Bank Policy Institute. Prior to this role, he was President at The Clearing House Association and Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Clearing House Payments Company, the largest private sector payments operator in the United States. Baer has also been Managing Director and Head of Regulatory Policy at JPMorgan Chase. Previously he served as Deputy General Counsel for Corporate Law at Bank of America, and as a partner and co-head of the financial institutions group at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr. From 1999 to 2001, Baer served as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, after serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary. Prior to working for the Treasury Department, Mr. Baer was managing senior counsel at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Baer is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and the author of The Great Mutual Fund Trap and Life: The Odds (And How to Improve Them).

Baer received an AB from UNC and a JD from Harvard Law School.