Jonathan Fiechter
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Education
B.S., economics, Rockford College
Summary of Experience
Mr. Fiechter is an expert in banking supervision and regulation, financial crisis management, and deposit insurance. He has more than 45 years of senior leadership experience in banking regulation, both in the US and globally. Mr. Fiechter started his career as an economist at the US Department of the Treasury before taking on senior regulatory positions at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). He served as acting director of the OTS during the savings and loan crisis in the 1990s, as well as on the boards of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust Corporation. He then led the Financial Sector Department at the World Bank, where he played a key role in the bank’s response to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Mr. Fiechter subsequently moved to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he served as a deputy director and was responsible for assisting countries experiencing financial sector crises. While at the IMF, he was seconded to the US Treasury to serve as the chief risk officer for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Since retiring from the IMF, Mr. Fiechter has served as an independent consultant and advisor to central banks and supervisory agencies in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia. He has also served as an external expert for the IMF and World Bank, a senior advisor to PwC UK, vice chairman of the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission, and an expert witness.