Mr. Elliott, a Fellow at The Brookings Institution, is a member of the Initiative on Business and Public Policy. A financial institutions investment banker for two decades, principally at J.P. Morgan, he was the founder and principal researcher for the Center On Federal Financial Institutions, a think tank devoted to the analysis of federal lending and insurance activities. At Brookings, he focuses primarily on financial institutions and markets and their regulation. He has written extensively on bank regulation and on international coordination of financial regulation (see http://www.brookings.edu/experts/elliottd.aspx) Mr. Elliott’s work as a financial institutions investment banker over two decades has given him a wide-ranging and deep understanding of the industry. He has researched financial institutions or worked directly with them as clients in a range of capacities, including as: an equities analyst, a credit analyst, a mergers & acquisitions specialist, a relationship officer, and a specialist in securitizations. His work encompassed banks, insurers, funds management firms, and other financial institutions. In addition to 14 years at J.P. Morgan, Mr. Elliott worked as an investment banker with Sanford Bernstein, Sandler O’Neill, and ABN AMRO.
A deep interest in public policy led him to found the Center On Federal Financial Institutions (COFFI) in 2003. COFFI focused on providing objective analyses of the federal government’s 100%-owned financial institutions.
He has testified before both houses of Congress and participated in numerous speaking engagements, as well as appearing widely in the major media outlets. The New York Times referred to his analyses as “refreshingly understandable” and “without a hint of dogma or advocacy”.
Mr. Elliott graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with an A.B. in Sociology in 1981. In 1984, he graduated from Duke University with an M.A. in Computer Science.