Susan S. Bies

Biography

Ms. Bies has served as a Senior Advisory Board Member to Oliver Wyman Group, a management consulting subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., since February 2009 She served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board from 2001 to 2007. During her service, Ms. Bies was Chairwoman of the Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Affairs; she also represented the Federal Reserve Board on the Financial Stability Board and led the Federal Reserve Board’s efforts to modernize the Basel capital accord Ms. Bies served as a member of the FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force from 1996 to 2001 Ms. Bies held various leadership roles, including Executive Vice President of Risk Management, Auditor, and Chief Financial Officer at First Tennessee, a regional bank holding company where she was employed from 1979 to 2001. At First Tennessee, she also served as Chair of the Asset Liability Management and the Executive Risk Management Committees Ms. Bies currently serves as a director of Zurich Insurance, where she chairs the Risk Committee Ms. Bies chairs the Board of Directors of our U.K. broker-dealer, MLI She began her career as a regional and banking structure economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Research Interest

banking commerce accounting