Speaker Biographies

Steve Bartlett is the president of the Financial Services Roundtable, an organization of one hundred of the largest integrated financial services companies that provide banking, insurance, and investment products and services to the American public. Roundtable member companies account directly for $65.8 trillion in managed assets, $1 trillion in revenue, and 2.4 million jobs. Under Mr. Bartlett’s leadership, the Roundtable has helped shape public policy impacting member companies, their employees, and customers. He propelled the Roundtable to “major player” status on Capitol Hill and among regulatory agencies. Before joining the Roundtable in 1999, Mr. Bartlett served as mayor of Dallas from 1991 to 1995 and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991. While in Congress, Mr. Bartlett served on the House Banking Committee and was a leader in financial modernization. He served as a deputy whip in the House Republican Leadership with then-representatives Trent Lott (R-Miss), Dick Cheney (R-Wyo), and Newt Gingrich (R-Ga).

Peter J. Wallison holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies at AEI, where he codirects the Institute’s program on financial market deregulation. He previously practiced banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., and New York. From June 1981 to January 1985, Mr. Wallison was general counsel of the Treasury Department, where he had a significant role in the development of the Reagan administration’s proposals for deregulation in the financial services industry. He also served as general counsel to the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee and participated in the Treasury Department’s efforts to deal with the debt held by less-developed countries. During 1986 and 1987, Mr. Wallison was White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Between 1972 and 1976, Mr. Wallison served first as special assistant to New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and, subsequently, as counsel to Mr. Rockefeller when he was vice president of the United States.

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