Biography
Kelvin Chen is Head of Policy for the Consumer Bankers Association, where he leads the organization’s regulatory, legislative, and communications teams, as well as policy research.
Kelvin also has experience in senior positions in the government and across the private sector. Prior to joining CBA, Kelvin served on the Executive Committee for Barclays U.S. Consumer Bank, where he led its Regulatory Affairs function. Kelvin led Capital One’s Bank Regulatory and Policy team, as an executive in their Legal Department. In his time with the government, Kelvin created and led the Federal Reserve Board's Innovation Policy team in the Division of Supervision & Regulation. There, he set out the agency’s initial frameworks on a range of technology policy matters, including the use of artificial intelligence in supervised institutions, data aggregation, and stablecoins. Kelvin led policy development at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for emerging payments and, separately, mandatory arbitration provisions. And Kelvin advised agency principals at the Federal Trade Commission on consumer protection-related policy and enforcement matters and was a litigator in the New York offices of Morrison & Foerster LLP and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.
Kelvin studied Systems Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania (’00) and attended New York University School of Law (’04). He is an Advisory Group member of the Digital Dollar Project and was previously affiliated with the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy.