2009 Annual Development Banking Conference
Keynote Speaker Profiles



John C. Dugan
Comptroller of the Currency

John C. Dugan was sworn in as the 29th Comptroller of the Currency in August 2005.

The Comptroller of the Currency is the administrator of national banks and chief officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC supervises nearly 1,600 federally chartered commercial banks and about 50 federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States, comprising nearly two-thirds of the assets of the commercial banking system. The Comptroller also is a director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and NeighborWorks® America.

In September 2007, Comptroller Dugan was named Chairman of the Joint Forum, which operates under the aegis of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors. The Joint Forum includes senior financial sector regulators from the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia, and deals with issues common to the banking, securities, and insurance industries, including supervision of conglomerates.

Before his appointment as Comptroller, Mr. Dugan was a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling, where he chaired the firm's Financial Institutions Group and specialized in banking and financial institution regulation.

He served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1989 to 1993 and was appointed Assistant Secretary for Domestic Finance in 1992. While at Treasury, Mr. Dugan had extensive responsibility for policy initiatives involving banks and financial institutions, including the savings and loan cleanup, Glass-Steagall and banking reform, and regulation of government-sponsored enterprises. In 1991, he oversaw a comprehensive study of the banking industry that formed the basis for the financial modernization legislation proposed by the administration of the first President Bush.

From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Dugan was Counsel and Minority General Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. There he advised the committee as it considered the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987, the Proxmire Financial Modernization Act of 1988; and the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989.

A 1977 University of Michigan graduate with an A.B. in English literature, Mr. Dugan earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1955, Mr. Dugan lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Beth, and his two children, Claire and Jack.




Donna J. Gambrell
Director of the CDFI Fund, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. appointed Donna J. Gambrell to serve as Director of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund effective November 26, 2007.

Before coming to the CDFI Fund, Gambrell served as Deputy Director of Consumer Protection and Community Affairs in the Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). She oversaw the FDIC’s national community affairs, consumer affairs and deposit insurance outreach programs. As such, she managed initiatives related to reaching underserved populations; providing guidance to consumers on current issues such as identity theft, subprime and predatory lending and credit card debt; and increasing the public’s understanding of and confidence in the banking system.

Previously, at the request of former FDIC Chairman Donald E. Powell, she served 18 months in the Gulf Coast Region (from February 2006 to August 2007) — as part of a temporary assignment — working on rebuilding initiatives in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which struck the region in 2005. Mr. Powell is Coordinator of the Federal Support for the Recovery and Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast Region.

Ms. Gambrell worked onsite in Louisiana and Mississippi spearheading partnerships among financial institutions, government agencies and community–based organizations to promote community and economic development in areas devastated by the hurricanes, including low–and moderate–income neighborhoods.

Ms. Gambrell began her career with the FDIC in April 1991 as a Community Affairs Officer in the agency’s New York Region. She served in increasingly responsible compliance and consumer protection positions at the Corporation, and in May 2000 was promoted to Deputy Director.

Prior to joining the FDIC, Ms. Gambrell worked at the Resolution Trust Corporation (1989-1991), the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (1987-1989), and the U.S. General Accounting Office (1979-1987).

Ms. Gambrell received a B.S. Degree from Towson State University, Baltimore, Maryland, and an MS Degree from New York University. In 2004, she received a National Public Service Award for her innovative work over the years in formulating public-private partnerships.




Sandra Thompson
Director, Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection, FDIC

Sandra L. Thompson leads the FDIC's supervision of more than 5,300 state nonmember banks as well as its back-up examination activities for all federally insured depository institutions. As Director of the Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection (DSC), Ms. Thompson is responsible for all aspects of FDIC supervisory activities nationwide. She oversees a workforce of more than 2,700 employees deployed in six regional offices and 84 field offices nationwide.

Ms. Thompson is responsible for the FDIC's programs designed to promote financial institutions' safety and soundness, and those institutions' compliance with consumer protection statutes and regulations. She leads the FDIC's domestic and international banking policy development, including initiatives of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and programs dealing with anti-terrorism and anti-money-laundering. She also oversees the FDIC's supervisory enforcement initiatives and manages regulatory approvals that allow banks to engage in certain activities or transactions.

As DSC Director, Ms. Thompson coordinates with her regulatory counterparts to effect vigilant supervision of the nation's financial institutions. She regularly testifies before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee on issues such as risk management, consumer protection and other policy matters. She represents the FDIC as a member of bank regulatory professional organizations, including the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Task Force on Supervision and she is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Supervisors of Banks of the Americas.

Ms. Thompson is a vigorous advocate of the FDIC's consumer/community affairs and outreach activities and speaks frequently on such issues as affordable housing and foreclosure prevention. She is passionately committed to protecting America's consumers.

Previously, Ms. Thompson served in several executive positions. She was formerly Deputy to the FDIC Vice Chairman, DSC's Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Resource Management, Assistant Director for Electronic Banking, and DRR's Assistant Director for Capital Markets. She also served as the Director of Securitization for the Resolution Trust Corporation, where, among other things, she was responsible for issuing more than $41 billion in mortgage-backed securities.

Before joining the FDIC in 1990, Ms. Thompson served as an associate with Goldman Sachs. She holds a degree in finance from Howard University, Washington, D.C.




Steven D. Lydenberg
Chief Investment Officer, Domini Social Investments

Steven Lydenberg is Chief Investment Officer for Domini Social Investments LLC. He has spent 30 years in the social investment and corporate social accountability worlds. For 12 years, from 1975 through 1987, he worked with the Council on Economic Priorities, where he researched and wrote numerous studies on corporate social accountability, including reports on the role of corporate financing in ballot question campaigns, the filing of shareholder resolutions, and corporate initiatives in the areas of child care and minority banking. In his capacity as Director of Corporate Accountability Research with CEP, he was coauthor of Rating America's Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley,1986), the first systematic rating of the overall corporate social accountability records of major U.S. corporations. In 1987, he joined Franklin Research and Development Corporation (now Trillium Asset Management) where he worked as an investment analyst, contributing to the company's Insight newsletter. FRDC was the first U.S. money management firm to specialize exclusively in serving socially responsible investors.

In 1990, he became a co-founder of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini & Co., where he served for 11 years as Research Director. During that time he was instrumental in the creation and maintenance of the Domini Social Index, the first socially screened equity index in the U.S. He also played a key role in the development of the company's Socrates Database, currently a major resource tool for the socially responsible investment community. With his partners, Amy Domini and Peter Kinder, he was co-editor of The Social Investment Almanac (Henry Holt, 1992) and co-author of Investing for Good (HarperBusiness,1993). His articles, "Envisioning Socially Responsible Investing: A Model for 2006" and "Trust Building and Trust Busting: Corporations, Government, and Responsibilities," appeared in The Journal of Corporate Citizenship in 2002 and 2003. He is the author of Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand (Berrett-Koehler, 2005). Mr. Lydenberg is a fellow with the Institute for Responsible Investment and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

He has served as a judge for the Business Ethics Magazine Corporate Awards from 1999 through 2004, for the CERES-ACCA sustainability reporting awards from 2003 through 2005, and for Social Accountability International's Corporate Conscience Awards in 2002 and 2003. He holds degrees from Columbia College and Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).