FDIC Appoints Dana T. Wade as Deputy to the Chairman and Chief of Staff

WASHINGTON – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today announced its Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Dana T. Wade as Deputy to the Chairman and Chief of Staff. In this role, Ms. Wade will serve as advisor to the Acting Chairman on a range of issues facing the agency, help manage the agency’s day-to-day operations, and oversee all of the agency’s divisions and offices.

Ms. Wade has almost two decades of experience working on financial issues in the public and private sector. She is a former Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration and Assistant Secretary of Housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Most recently, she worked as an executive at the Peter J. Peterson Foundation. Ms. Wade has held senior roles at the Office of Management and Budget and on four Congressional Committees, including as the Deputy Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and as a senior advisor to the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She also has experience as a senior executive for a commercial real estate finance company. Ms. Wade holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.