Graham Steele

Graham Steele (Bluesky – LinkedIn) is an academic fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. He is also a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Graham is an expert on financial regulation and financial institutions, with experience working at the highest levels of law and policy in Washington, D.C. He served as the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from November 2021 until January 2024.

Prior to the Treasury Department, Graham was director of the Corporations and Society research initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow with the American Economic Liberties Project. Before joining Stanford GSB, he was a member of the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

From 2015 to 2017, Graham was the Minority Chief Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs. From 2010 to 2015 he was a Legislative Assistant for United States Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), handling the Senator’s work as a member of the Senate Banking Committee.

Graham’s work has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, Washington Monthly, Yale Law Journal, University of Colorado Law Review, George Mason Law Review, University of Chicago Business Law Journal, and Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. He received his bachelors’ degree in political science from the University of Rochester and his law degree from The George Washington University Law School.