Christopher Campbell

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Christopher Campbell
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions
In office
September 25, 2017  July 31, 2018
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byCyrus Amir-Mokri
Succeeded byBimal Patel
Personal details
Born
Political partyRepublican
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Thunderbird School of Global Management

Christopher Campbell is a senior executive-level business strategist, former American political aide, and senior government official who previously served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions.[1][2] He was unanimously confirmed as Assistant Secretary by the United States Senate in 2017.[3] Prior to assuming his Department of Treasury role, Campbell was the majority staff director for the United States Senate Committee on Finance and a senior staff member on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.[4][5]

Campbell 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 Campbell 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

Campbell was the majority staff director[6] to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. He designed, managed, and coordinated the U.S. Senate agenda in the areas of international and domestic taxation, international trade, Medicare (United States), 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[7] seven years running and recognized as a bipartisan problem-solver.[8] Previously, he served as legislative director to former U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch, where he coordinated and managed the senator's legislative activities.

U.S. Treasury

Campbell 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 (cyber security) and compliance policy, the Federal Insurance Office (FIO), and small business, community development, and affordable housing policy. Campbell was the Treasury board representative on the boards of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) and the Financial Industry's Critical Infrastructure Group. Campbell regularly met with the heads of the 15 federal financial regulators. Campbell 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 300.

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

As a Special Government Employee (SGE), in 2025, Campbell served as Senior Advisor in a temporary role at U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), a U.S. government agency, to help the agency expand its critical mission of advancing United States Interests around the world by mobilizing private capital for development projects by providing financial tools like loans, loan guarantees, political risk insurance, and equity investments in sectors like mining, energy, infrastructure, health, and businesses.

Post-Treasury

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