Seth Wheeler

Seth Wheeler is currently a Managing Director at JP Morgan Chase, where he helps coordinate consumer, digital, fintech, and innovation strategy for the Consumer and Community Bank. Previously, he was a Guest Scholar at Brookings focused on financial innovation and its intersection with policy. He also previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy with the National Economic Council at the White House, where he led policy on housing finance, financial innovation, financial markets, and financial regulatory policy.

Mr. Wheeler joined the White House from the Federal Reserve, where he served as Assistant Director and Chief of Staff of the Office of Financial Stability. Previously, Mr. Wheeler served as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Senior Advisor at the Treasury Department under both the Bush and Obama administrations; in this role, he helped craft the Federal government’s response to the financial crisis. Earlier, he worked at Bain & Co. and Morgan Stanley where he advised financial institutions on global strategy and operations.

He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Columbia Law School.