Saule T. Omarova is the Earle Hepburn Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at Roosevelt Institute. Her scholarship focuses on U.S. bank regulation, financial innovation and financial technology, systemic risk dynamics and structural trends in global financial markets, finance as a tool of economic development, and law and macroeconomy. Prior to joining academia, she practiced banking law at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a premier New York law firm, and served at the U.S. Treasury Department as Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance. In 2021, Professor Omarova was President Biden’s nominee for the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. from Northwestern University.