Gregory P. Wilson

Gregory P. Wilson - Profile

Greg Wilson has provided distinctive consulting services throughout his more than 30-year professional career in financial services policy and regulation. For more information, visit http://gregwilsonconsulting.com.

For the past three years, his primary client focus has been on the financial crisis and regulatory reform efforts, primarily in the United States, but also internationally following G20 developments.

In the private sector, he has helped foreign and domestic banks manage their U.S. financial regulatory and governance risk, assisted nonbanks entering the U.S. market through de novo banks, advised CEOs on how to manage a financial crisis, and advised leaders of financial services trade associations on critical strategy, public policy, regulatory, and organizational issues. He serves as an external adviser to the Financial Stability Industry Council of the Financial Services Roundtable and was co-director of the Roundtable's Blue Ribbon Commission on Financial Competitiveness in 2007.

Greg is the author of Managing to the New Regulatory Reality - Doing Business under the Dodd-Frank Act (John Wiley & Sons, 2011). He also is the co-author of Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises (John Wiley & Sons, 2001) and has been a frequent contributor to the McKinsey Quarterly and other publications.

During more than 20 years at McKinsey, Greg also has served numerous public sector clients around the world, including central bankers, ministers of finance, and financial regulators on issues of financial crisis management, regulatory reform, financial sector restructuring, and financial center competitiveness. His recent clients include the public-private endeavor for a small financial center, a capital markets regulator in the Gulf, ten central banks and bank restructuring agencies in Asia, North Africa, and Latin America, a securities regulator in North America, and a U.S. bank regulator. Greg also served a North American blue-ribbon, financial services task force to help it better understand the implications of market changes for consumers, financial institutions, regulators, and policy makers. In the past decade, Greg has worked in more than 25 countries in the developed world and emerging markets.

Greg also serves on the International Institute of Finance's Special Committee on Effective Regulation, and he is an occasional lecturer at the National Defense University's Industrial College of the Armed Services. Greg also served former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton as a lead consultant to the creation of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, whose mission was to assist victims of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

Prior to joining McKinsey in 1989, Greg served Secretaries of the Treasury James A. Baker III and Nicholas F. Brady as their Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy from 1986 to 1989. Upon leaving the Treasury Department, he received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award from Secretary Brady.

From 1983 to 1986, he served Representative Chalmers P. Wylie as the Republican Staff Director for the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to becoming staff director, he served Representative Bill Stanton in a variety of positions on the Committee starting in 1977.

From 1974 to 1976, Greg attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he studied international business and law. He graduated magna cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1974 with a B.A. in history as well as politics and government. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa national honorary societies and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. A native of Ravenna, Ohio, Greg is married, the father of two children, and lives in Great Falls, Virginia.

An avid world traveler and amateur genealogist, he also is the founder of RavenFire Tunes, musician in the band, F.O.G., and executive producer of its 2001 debut CD of original music, Reunion (www.fogreunion.com).