Name
The Hon. Sarah Bloom Raskin
Job Title
Co-Chair of the UN Net Zero and Accountability Framework Review
Company
Former Deputy Treasury Secretary and currently Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke University
Speaker Bio
Sarah Bloom Raskin has served both as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury and as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board.
As the second-in-command of the U.S. Treasury, Sarah oversaw the entire Treasury Department and its various agencies and departments. Ms. Raskin is known for her tireless pursuit of innovative solutions to enhance Americans’ shared prosperity, the resilience of the country’s critical financial infrastructure, and the defense of consumer safeguards in the financial marketplace. She was a champion of cyber security in the financial sector both nationally and internationally. Her efforts, including leading the development of the G-7 Fundamental Elements of Cybersecurity for the Financial Sector, contributed to a more secure and resilient financial sector in the face of increasingly frequent and sophisticated threats.
Earlier, Sarah was a governor of the Federal Reserve Board and a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, where she helped conduct the nation’s monetary policy and promote financial stability. She also served as Commissioner of Financial Regulation for the State of Maryland from 2007 to 2010. She and her agency were responsible for regulating Maryland’s financial institutions during the height of the Great Recession.
Sarah’s public-facing work focuses on economic resilience. She has a deep understanding of the origination and management of systemic risks from diverse sources such as financial instruments, cyber breaches, and climate events.
Sarah is a leading voice in understanding climate change as it pertains to the economy. Her courage was more recently evident in the letter she wrote to President Biden in which she wrote that “[a]ddressing the transition of the economy as it grapples with the effects of climate change is critical to the future of the American economy“.
Her work focused on creating a climate resilient economy, includes “Climate Change and the Precautionary Imperative“ (Green Swan Conference, 2020), “Bearing Witness to the Resilience is of the American Economy; Why Climate Change Matters“ (Trinity Wall Street, 2022) and “Changing the Climate of Financial Regulation“ (Project Syndicate, 2021).
Sarah is currently the Colin W. Brown Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at the Duke Law School where she teaches Business Associations, Law and Financial Anxiety, and Climate change and Financial Markets.
Sarah received her B.A. in economics from Amherst College and her J.S. from Harvard Law School.
As the second-in-command of the U.S. Treasury, Sarah oversaw the entire Treasury Department and its various agencies and departments. Ms. Raskin is known for her tireless pursuit of innovative solutions to enhance Americans’ shared prosperity, the resilience of the country’s critical financial infrastructure, and the defense of consumer safeguards in the financial marketplace. She was a champion of cyber security in the financial sector both nationally and internationally. Her efforts, including leading the development of the G-7 Fundamental Elements of Cybersecurity for the Financial Sector, contributed to a more secure and resilient financial sector in the face of increasingly frequent and sophisticated threats.
Earlier, Sarah was a governor of the Federal Reserve Board and a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, where she helped conduct the nation’s monetary policy and promote financial stability. She also served as Commissioner of Financial Regulation for the State of Maryland from 2007 to 2010. She and her agency were responsible for regulating Maryland’s financial institutions during the height of the Great Recession.
Sarah’s public-facing work focuses on economic resilience. She has a deep understanding of the origination and management of systemic risks from diverse sources such as financial instruments, cyber breaches, and climate events.
Sarah is a leading voice in understanding climate change as it pertains to the economy. Her courage was more recently evident in the letter she wrote to President Biden in which she wrote that “[a]ddressing the transition of the economy as it grapples with the effects of climate change is critical to the future of the American economy“.
Her work focused on creating a climate resilient economy, includes “Climate Change and the Precautionary Imperative“ (Green Swan Conference, 2020), “Bearing Witness to the Resilience is of the American Economy; Why Climate Change Matters“ (Trinity Wall Street, 2022) and “Changing the Climate of Financial Regulation“ (Project Syndicate, 2021).
Sarah is currently the Colin W. Brown Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at the Duke Law School where she teaches Business Associations, Law and Financial Anxiety, and Climate change and Financial Markets.
Sarah received her B.A. in economics from Amherst College and her J.S. from Harvard Law School.