Sheila C. Bair

Sheila Colleen Bair has served as a member of Lion’s Board since September 2020. Sheila C. Bair is a corporate director. Ms. Bair was President of Washington College from August 2015 to June 2017. Prior to that, she was Senior Advisor to The Pew Charitable Trusts for four years. Ms. Bair was also Senior Advisor to DLA Piper, an international law firm. Ms. Bair was the Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from June 2006 to July 2011. From 2002 to 2006, she was the Dean’s Professor of Financial Regulatory Policy for the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She also served as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2001 to 2002, Senior Vice President for Government Relations of the New York Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2000, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1991 to 1995, and as counsel to Kansas Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole from 1981 to 1988. Ms. Bair also serves on the boards of directors of Bunge Limited, where she serves on the audit and risk committees, Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., where she serves on the audit and nominating and corporate governance committees, and Fannie Mae, where she serves as board chairwomen and on the nomination, compensation and risk committees. Ms. Bair previously served on the board of director of Thomson Reuters Corporation, where she served as chair of the risk committee. Ms. Bair holds a bachelor’s degree and law degree from the University of Kansas.