Elizabeth Warren was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, where she has since served as a Massachusetts senator.
Senator Warren has transformed consumer financial protection through groundbreaking academic work and government service. She originally proposed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2007 while serving as a Harvard Law School professor, conceptualizing the agency that has revolutionized financial oversight. As Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) following the 2008 financial crisis, Warren conducted rigorous oversight of the $700 billion bank bailout, holding Treasury officials accountable through monthly reports to Congress. President Obama appointed her as Special Adviser to help establish the CFPB, where she laid the foundation for an agency that is now a powerful advocate for American consumers.
For the 2014 Whittington Lecture, she spoke on “Collateral Damage, National Interests and the Lessons of a Decade in Conflict.”