Michael Barr

Biography

Michael Barr is the Vice Chair for Supervision for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Before joining the Federal Reserve, Barr served as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He also served as a professor of public policy and law at the university, teaching financial regulation and international finance. He helped found the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy and co-founded the law school’s International Transactions Clinic. Prior to his work at the university, Barr worked as the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions as well as a Special Advisor to President Clinton at the U.S. Treasury Department and a special advisor and policy counsel at the U.S. State Department.

Barr received a BA in History from Yale University, a MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, and a JD from Yale Law School.