Bill Black Email and Phone Number

Exec. Dir., Institute for Fraud Prevention: 2005-2007. Litigation Director, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Deputy Director, FSLIC, SVP and General Counsel, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. Deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement. His regulatory career is profiled in Professor Riccucci's book: Unsung Heroes (Georgetown U. Press: 1995), Professor Bowman, et al’s book The Professional Edge (M.E. Sharpe 2004), and Joseph M. Tonon’s article: “The Costs of Speaking Truth to Power: How Professionalism Facilitates Credible Communication.” George Akerlof called his book, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One (University of Texas Press 2005), “a classic.” Paul Volcker praised its analysis of the critical role of Bank Board Chairman Gray’s leadership in reregulating and resupervising the industry:Bill Black has detailed an alarming story about financial - and political - corruption. One of those lessons really sticks out: one brave man with a conscience could stand up for us all.Robert Kuttner, in his Business Week column, proclaimed:Black's book is partly the definitive history of the savings-and-loan industry scandals of the early 1980s. More important, it is a general theory of how dishonest CEOs, crony directors, and corrupt middlemen can systematically defeat market discipline and conceal deliberate fraud for a long time -- enough to create massive damage.He recently helped the World Bank develop anti-corruption initiatives and served as an expert for OFHEO in its enforcement action against Fannie Mae’s former senior management. He teaches White-Collar Crime, Public Finance, Antitrust, Law & Economics and Latin American Development.Specialties: White-collar criminology, fraud, corruption, regulation, law & economics, public finance, litigation, white-collar crime, & business ethics.