Fed Event: Join us for a Congressional Briefing with Andrew Olmem on April 23

Congressional Briefing – Andrew Olmem
Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 1:30 p.m.
2511 Van Munching Hall

Register at http://ter.ps/olmem

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 the Center for Financial Policy, in partnership with the School of Public Policy, will host Andrew Olmem, former Republican Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

This talk is part of the Center’s “Congressional Briefings” series that host current and former Capitol Hill staffers to the Smith School to speak about legislative issues related to financial policy. The event will take place at 1:30 p.m. at 2511 Van Munching Hall.

We hope that you will join us for this discussion. There is no registration fee for this event. To register, please visit http://ter.ps/olmem.

This event is open to all faculty, staff, and students. Please encourage any interested students to attend.

For additional information about this event, please contact Michelle Lui, Assistant Director, Center for Financial Policy at mlui@rhsmith.umd.edu.

Speaker bio:

Andrew Olmem was most recently the Republican Deputy Staff Director and Chief Counsel at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. His tenure at the Committee began in 2005 and was marked by the passage of GSE reform, the TARP legislation, and the Dodd-Frank Act. He was a lead staff negotiator for the Dodd-Frank Act and played a key role in the debate over the legislation. Before his Senate service, he practiced corporate law in New York City at Mayer Brown. He began his career as an assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He graduated from Washington and Lee University with a degree in economics, and received his law degree, cum laude, from the Washington and Lee University School of Law.