Peter Wallison
American Enterprise Institute

Peter J. Wallison holds the Arthur F. Burns chair in Financial Market Studies at AEI and is co-director of AEI’s program on financial market deregulation. Before joining AEI in 1999, he was a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he practiced banking, corporate, and financial law in the firm’s Washington and New York offices. Since joining AEI, he has studied and written about the financial services industry, including banking, securities and insurance, and how each sector is regulated. His paper will focus on the implications for the regulation of insurance that flow from the fact that three industries are competing with one another. As the general counsel of the Treasury Department from 1981 to 1985, Mr. Wallison helped develop the Reagan administration’s proposals for deregulating the financial services industry. During 1986 and 1987, Mr. Wallison was White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Wallison is the co-author most recently of Competitive Equity: A Better Way to Organize Mutual Funds (AEI Press 2007); he is also the author of Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency (Westview Press, 2003), co-author of Nationalizing Mortgage Risk: The Growth of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and author or co-author of several other books.