Profile
Yan Lee is Assistant Director in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection. She is responsible for the Consumer Research program at the FDIC and for stewarding the biennial FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households, as well as other longer-term consumer-related research initiatives sponsored by the agency. Prior to this role, she was Team Lead for the FDIC’s Small Business Lending Survey. Yan received her PhD and MA in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and a BA in Economics from Barnard College, Columbia University. Before her graduate studies, she worked as a fair lending examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.