Kathy Casey
Senior Advisor
Ms. Casey advises on financial markets policy, regulatory compliance and risk management, corporate governance, international regulatory developments, and enforcement.
She has more than thirty years of experience in various senior government and private sector leadership roles and brings a combination of high-level strategic competency and technical expertise, including substantial experience in financial services, capital markets policy and regulation, and corporate governance. Ms. Casey has a strong record of building effective alliances and broad consensus to achieve strategic goals in multiple U.S. and global organizations and industries.
Ms. Casey currently serves on several corporate, advisory, and non-profit boards, including the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Sepio Systems, Inc., Kharon Strategic Advisory Board, the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, the Sterman Masser, Inc. Advisory Board, and the Center for Audit Quality Governing Board.
From 2006 to 2011, she served as a Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). During her tenure, including through the financial crisis, Ms. Casey acted as the SEC’s principal representative in various international fora, including multilateral and bilateral regulatory dialogues, the G-20 Financial Stability Board, and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). In this capacity, she also served in several international leadership positions, including Chair of the IOSCO Technical Committee and Co-Chair of the CPSS-IOSCO Review of Standards, IOSCO OTC Derivatives Task Force, IOSCO Task Force on Supervisory Cooperation, and Financial Stability Board Working Group on Provisioning.
Since leaving the SEC in 2011, Ms. Casey has served as a Non-Executive Director on several corporate boards including, HSBC Holdings plc where she served on the Audit and Financial System Vulnerabilities Committees.; Non-Executive Director of FX Alliance, Inc., and Non-Executive Director of Standard Coin.
She also chaired several U.S. and international organizations, including the Council of the Alternative Investment Management Association, the London-based global representative of hedge funds and private credit funds industry; Penn State Health, a multi-hospital health system; and the Financial Accounting Foundation, the governing board that oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. She also served as a member of the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees and the International Valuation Standards Council and held academic appointments as a Distinguished Policy Fellow with the Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and Adjunct Lecturer at George Mason University School of Law.
Prior to being appointed an SEC Commissioner, she served in various senior legal and policy roles in the U.S. Senate. From 2003 to 2006, she served as Staff Director and Counsel of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, where she led the committee’s work and advised on matters of economic and monetary policy, international trade and finance, banking, securities and insurance regulation, transit and housing policy, money laundering, and terror finance. Significant issues the committee considered under Ms. Casey’s direction include: reform of the Government Sponsored Enterprises, reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, deposit insurance reform, insurance regulation, Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., Sarbanes-Oxley implementation, and credit rating agencies. Earlier, she served in a series of senior advisory roles to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), including Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, and Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief.
Ms. Casey received her J.D. from George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School and her B.A. in international politics from The Pennsylvania State University.
