How money Moves Matters

Michele Braun educates for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises on payments and on risk management.  She knows of what she speaks:  Michele moved from corporate treasury management to managing check and ACH services and developing national policy at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where she also wrote speeches for Governors and explored regulatory changes to support payment innovation.   

As a New York Fed Payments Policy Officer, she served as secretary to the Fed-sponsored, industry-led Payments Risk Committee and the post-financial-crisis Tri-party Repo Infrastructure Reform Task Force. There, she worked closely with policy makers and industry to reduce risk associated with large-value payments, CCPs, and clearinghouses. 

Michele worked the midnight shift on Y2k, oversaw check services on 9/11 when checks still cleared by airplane, and moved to the NY Fed in time for the 2007-08 financial crisis that revealed the potential for large value markets to freeze.   Previously, Michele served in cash manager and assistant treasurer positions for a mid-sized conglomerate, as controller for a technology startup, and as an officer at a money center bank. More recently, she developed curricula and taught enterprise risk management at Manhattanville College’s School of Professional Studies.   

Ms. Braun holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, and an M.A. from Hebrew University.