Diane Casey-Landry, Resident Fellow at Harvard IOP

Diane Casey-Landry is a resident fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics where she is holding a study group on the Politics of a Financial Crisis: Was the Dodd –Frank Act the Right Answer?   Before coming to the Institute, Casey-Landry was the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of the American Bankers Association, which represents the nation’s $13 trillion banking industry. Prior to ABA, Casey-Landry was the President and CEO of America’s Community Bankers, the national trade association that represented all the nation’s thrifts, savings banks and mutuals, and other community focused banks.   Prior to becoming CEO of America’s Community Bankers, she was the national director of financial services for Grant Thornton LLP and chaired the industry practice group. Earlier in her career, she was Executive Director of the Independent Community Bankers of America. She served at the Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust Corporation as Vice President of Public Affairs and Public Liaison as the primary spokesperson for the new agency created by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989. She started her career as a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.   Casey-Landry is a graduate of Miami University of Oxford, Ohio (1979) and holds a Master’s in Public Administration from George Washington University. (1990).  A recognized leader in the banking industry, Casey-Landry has been noted as one of the Most Powerful Women in Banking by the US Banker; received the Distinguished Industry Leader Award from Women in Housing & Finance, and was named the Enterprising Woman of Washington by the National Museum for Women in the Arts.