Michael Barr

Michael S. Barr (born ) is an American legal scholar who has been serving as second vice chair of the Federal Reserve for supervision since 2022. From 2009 to 2011, he was assistant secretary of the treasury for financial institutions under President Barack Obama. At the University of Michigan, he has been serving as faculty member since 2001, professor of law since 2006, professor of public policy since 2014. Previously, Barr served as dean at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and faculty director of the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law, and Policy. Barr is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Early life and education Barr attended Yale College and graduated summa cum laude with honors in history in 1987. At Yale, he won the New Prize for public service and the Gries Prize for his senior history thesis, "The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa". He went on to earn his M.Phil. in international relations in 1989 as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. His thesis was on Panama–United States relations. Barr returned to Yale Law School to earn a Juris Doctor in 1992. He was a co-recipient of the AILA Human Rights Award and recipient of the Charles G. Albom Prize for appellate advocacy during his time at Yale Law School.