Volume II - PDF - International Association of Deposit Insurers

•BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS•
Part II: Outreach
(FDIC). He joined the staff of the Board of Governors as an economist in 1967. From 1968 to 1975, with
the FDIC, he served as assistant director of research and chief of financial and economic research. In this
capacity, he was responsible for basic research, policy analysis, and review of all proposed bank mergers. In
1976, Dr. Eisenbeis returned to the Board of Governors and over the next six years held the positions of
assistant to the director, associate research division officer, and senior deputy associate director in the division
of research and statistics.
Widely published in the field of banking and finance, Dr. Eisenbeis’ articles have appeared in such leading
publications as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Services Research, the Journal of Money,
Credit, and Banking, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Banking Law Journal and the Journal of Regulatory
Economics. His articles have also appeared in several Federal Reserve Bank publications, as well as the
Journal of Retail Banking Services and other trade journals. Dr. Eisenbeis has also coauthored several books
on banking and statistics and contributed chapters to other books and is the executive editor of the Journal
of Financial Services Research. He currently serves on the editorial boards of various scholarly publications.
Dr. Eisenbeis has also been active in professional organizations, particularly the Financial Management
Association, and he has testified frequently before Congress. He was a founding member of the Shadow
Financial Regulatory Committee and is presently a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable and
the board of directors of the National Association for Business Economics. A graduate of Brown University,
he received both his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Dr. Douglas D. Evanoff is a senior financial economist and vice president in the Research Department of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. As director of the financial studies group he overseas research on
financial markets and regulation. He serves as an advisor to senior management of the Federal Reserve
System on regulatory issues and is chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s annual Conference
on Bank Structure and Competition. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate School of
Business at DePaul University. Mr. Evanoff’s current research interests include bank cost and merger analysis,
financial sector regulatory barriers, payment system mechanisms, and accessibility to consumer credit.
He has published studies in a wide array of professional journals and books including credit access, bank
regulation, industry structure, bank efficiency, payment system issues, and correspondent banking.
Mr. Evanoff holds a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Illinois University.
Dr. Gillian G. H. Garcia is currently an international consultant in banking and finance, having worked
recently on deposit insurance issues for the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, the International
Monetary Fund, and Arthur Andersen. She has also advised a number of countries on the design of an
“incentive-compatible” deposit insurance system to suit their needs. She has practical experience in dealing
with financial crises at home in the United States and abroad—as an Assistant Director at the U.S.
General Accounting Office and on the staff of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. In the Senate she helped
to resolve the S&L debacle and write the 1991 FDIC Improvement Act. Subsequently at the IMF she was
intensively involved in calming the crisis in Asia. She began her career as an academic in the Haas School
of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, later as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution
at Stanford University, and a Distinguished Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University. She is the
author of five books and a number of professional articles on financial subjects including publications in
the American Economic Review and the Journal of Finance.
Dr. George Hanc joined the FDIC as Associate Director of Research and Statistics in 1996. He also chairs
the Research Committee of the Financial Stability Forum’s Working Group on Deposit Insurance. From
1990 to 1995, he was with the Resolution Trust Corporation where he served as Director of the Office of
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