Bill Coen served as Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision from 2014 to 2019. Bill chaired the Policy Development Group, which developed and recommended the “Basel III” global financial crisis reforms for endorsement by the BCBS and its governing body. He also chaired the Committee’s Task Force on Corporate Governance and the Coherence and Calibration Task Force.
Bill had previously served as Deputy Secretary General from 2007 and his responsibilities focused on coordinating the various Basel III policy initiatives. He joined the BCBS’s Secretariat in 1999 from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington DC. Before joining the Federal Reserve, he was a bank examiner for the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Bill began his career as a credit officer of a New York City-based bank.
