Owen Cole MBA

Owen Cole currently serves as the NCUA Associate Director for Policy and Markets in the Office of Examination and Insurance (E&I). As Associate Director, he supervises the Directors of the E&I divisions of Capital Markets, Credit Markets, Policy, and NGN Support. He also is the President of the NCUA Central Liquidity Facility (CLF). The CLF was created to improve general financial stability by providing funds to meet the liquidity needs of credit unions.

Cole was the Director of the NCUA Office of Capital Markets & Planning from September 2005 through July 2011. From November 2004 through August 2005, he served as National Credit Union Administration’s Deputy Executive Director. As Deputy Executive Director, Cole was responsible for assisting the Executive Director, as the agency’s administrative head, in carrying out all administrative responsibilities. He also served as the Associate Regional Director of Operations in NCUA’s Capital Region, Region II from June 2002 to June 2003. Prior to Region II, he served as the Director of the Division of Risk Management from 1998-2002 and as a Senior Investment Officer in the Office of Investment Services from 1993-1998.

Cole came to NCUA in 1993 from the banking industry, where, as a Treasury Division Vice President, he spent 10 years as an investment trader and portfolio manager for the Riggs National Bank of Washington, DC. Responsibilities included supervision of funds management, money-market lending, investment portfolio management and asset-liability management. He holds a B.A. degree in History from McDaniel College and a MBA degree, with a concentration in finance and investments, from George Washington University.