Christopher Campbell


Christopher Campbell was an American political aide and government official who previously served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions. He was unanimously confirmed as Assistant Secretary by the United States Senate in 2017. Prior to assuming his Department of Treasury role, Campbell was the majority staff director for the United States Senate Committee on Finance and a staffer on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Early career

Chris successfully consulted on a handful of winning U.S. political campaigns for candidates for federal office including several campaigns for former U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch. Additionally Chris owned a business-consulting firm that specialized in business strategy with clients from all sized companies, from all regions of the country, and from a wide variety of industries.

U.S. Senate

Chris was the majority staff director to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. He designed, managed, and coordinated the U.S. Senate Republican agenda in the areas of international and domestic taxation, international trade, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the U.S. National Debt, and oversight of three presidential cabinet secretaries. He was named by Roll Call Newspaper as one of the 50 most influential staffers on Capitol Hill seven years running and recognized as a bipartisan problem-solver. Previously, he served as legislative director to former , where he coordinated and managed the senator’s legislative activities.

U.S. Treasury

Chris was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions from 2017 to 2018. In that role, he was responsible for coordinating the Department’s efforts regarding financial institutions legislation and regulation, legislation affecting Federal agencies that regulate or insure financial institutions and securities markets legislation and regulation. Specific policy and program areas of oversight included government-sponsored enterprises, critical infrastructure protection and compliance policy, the , and small business, community development, and affordable housing policy. Chris was the Treasury board representative on the boards of the and the Financial Industry's Critical Infrastructure Group. Chris regularly met with the heads of the 15 federal financial regulators. Chris oversaw the Deputy Assistant Secretaries for Financial Institutions Policy and Small Business, Community Development and Affordable Housing, and Cyber Security in addition to a staff of 200.

Post-Treasury

Christopher Campbell is the Chief Strategist at Duff & Phelps, based in New York. Chris is a frequent television commentator on issues impacting the economy. Additionally Chris is a director of , , , and is a Board Advisor to . Chris is an Professor of Practice at his alma mater, Thunderbird School of Global Management. He also serves as a strategic advisor and consultant to several large national and international organizations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Media appearances

Chris Campbell has appeared on dozens of episodes of many economically geared discussion programs on American cable news programs. He is regularly called upon to serve as a commentator on the media and economy on network news shows as well as CNN, Fox News Channel, CNBC, Bloomberg and the BBC among others. He has also published economic commentary in exclusive venues, such as . Appearances include: , , and many more.