Dessa Glasser, Chair, GLEIF; Board and Principal, Financial Risk Group (FRG)
Dessa Glasser is a Principal for FRG, responsible for the Data Advisory & Analytics practice. She has a 30- year track record implementing innovative solutions and managing organizations in the areas of risk, data, and analytics. She is an Independent Board Member of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and is the Chair of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). With experience as a board member, a senior leader within financial firms, and a deputy director for the U.S. Treasury, Ms. Glasser has seen the importance of getting data and risk right from multiple stakeholder perspectives.
Before joining FRG in 2017, Ms. Glasser was a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase. At JPMC she initiated the firm’s Capital Stress Testing Analytics team and built the Chief Data Office for Asset and Wealth Management, serving as the group’s first CDO. She was Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Research (US Treasury), supporting the Financial Stability Oversight Council, where she implemented a range of data and risk solutions, including assisting with the launch of the industry standard Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Ms. Glasser established the Chief Risk Office for Bunge, as its first Chief Risk Officer. She held senior positions at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, IBM, and KPMG and began her career teaching at Rutgers University.
Ms. Glasser has a B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Fordham University, where she sits on the Board of Advisors for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is a recipient of the US Treasury Exceptional Service Award and has been listed as a ‘Director to Watch’ by Directors and Boards and a Global Data Power Woman by CDO Magazine. She was chosen as the A-Team’s Industry Data Professional of the Year in 2023.
