Mr. Hugh Kelly serves as Special Advisor for Global Banking at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). He has twenty-six years of bank supervision experience with the OCC, principally as a senior examiner responsible for large bank examination, international bank supervision, and most recently, development of supervisory policy for electronic finance and operational risks.

As a member of the Global Banking & Financial Analysis management team since 2001, Mr. Kelly is responsible for the OCC’s policy development and external coordination efforts on international e-finance and technology supervisory risk management issues, including cyber security, business continuity, and cross-border vendor management risks. He is currently developing the OCC’s supervisory program for Operational Risk for large banking institutions and is a member of the agency’s Basel II Operational Risk Working Group.

Mr. Kelly is the coordinating member of the Electronic Banking Group (EBG) of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, reporting directly to EBG Chairman, Comptroller John D. Hawke, Jr. Since its inception in 1998, the EBG has actively assessed the risk management and supervisory implications of electronic finance developments, including cross-border issues. Mr. Kelly also assists Comptroller Hawke in his role as Chairman of the Financial Stability Forum’s Contact Group on Electronic Finance, which consists of the heads of the global e-finance groups representing supervisors in the banking, securities, insurance, clearing and payment system sectors. Mr. Kelly is a member of the OCC National Risk Committee and OCC’s Electronic Banking Working Group. He also is a charter member of the E-Finance Experts Group of the OECD Committee on Financial Markets and has actively represented the OCC in bilateral activities with U.S. Treasury, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Financial Stability Institute, the Association of Supervisors of Banks in the Americas, and the Caribbean Bank Supervisors Association. Mr. Kelly is a frequent speaker and instructor at major industry and supervisory conferences on international supervisory issues, including e-finance, operational risk, technology risk, vendor management and country risk management.

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Mr. Kelly is a 1977 graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles with a B.B.A. degree in Finance/Economics. He is also a graduate of the Pacific Coast Graduate Banking School, Seattle, the ABA’s International Banking School, and attended Schiller College, Heidelberg, Germany.