Peggy Kuhn

Peggy Kuhn is a senior financial services professional with over twenty years of experience with the bank regulatory agencies, federal budget agencies, and Congressional staff positions.

Ms. Kuhn served as Senior Economist of the Senate Banking Committee from 2003 to 2009 under Senator Richard Shelby, and also from 1995 to 1998 under U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato of New York. Ms. Kuhn advised Committee members on all aspects of banking industry and regulatory issues, including financial modernization, monetary policy and payment systems issues, capital requirements and resolution regimes for federally insured financial institutions and housing-related government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), regulatory authority over financially troubled GSEs, and deposit insurance reform.

Between tenures at Committee, Ms. Kuhn served as a Senior Financial Economist at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 1999 through 2002. At the FDIC, Ms. Kuhn developed and coordinated the Chairman’s testimony, advised the Chief Financial Officer on FDIC’s operations for the resolution of failed banks and the sale of failed bank assets and was recognized as the Corporation’s in-house expert on federal and congressional budget matters.

Before joining the Senate Banking Committee, Ms. Kuhn was a Financial Economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency from 1994 to 1995, where she drafted the Comptroller’s speeches and congressional testimony, and analyzed state regulatory assessments for an OCC task force.

From 1988 to 1994, Ms. Kuhn was employed at the Office of Management in the Executive Office of the President. While at OMB, she was the Budget Examiner for the Resolution Trust Corporation and other Banking Agencies. Ms Kuhn was responsible for projecting federal government expenditures and receipts in the acquisition and sale of thrift assets.
Ms. Kuhn has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota and a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.