Peter Conti-Brown

Peter Conti-Brown is the Class of 1965 Associate Professor of Financial Regulation at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Nonresident Fellow in Economics Studies at The Brookings Institution. A financial historian and a legal scholar, Conti-Brown studies central banking, financial regulation, and public finance, with a particular focus on the history and policies of the US Federal Reserve System. He is author of the book The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve (Princeton University Press 2016), co-author of a leading textbook on financial regulation (The Law of Financial Institutions), and co-author of Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America (Princeton University Press 2025), as well as author and editor of several other books and articles on central banking, financial regulation, and bank corporate governance. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, a law degree from Stanford Law School, and a PhD in financial history from Princeton. He and his wife Nikki are the parents of four children.