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Jeremy Kress

Fellow, Corporate Power and Financial Regulation

As a Roosevelt Institute fellow, Jeremy Kress works on banking industry policy, banking reform, and financial stability.

Jeremy Kress is an associate professor of business law at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. His research focuses on bank regulation, systemic risk, and financial stability.

Before entering academia, Kress was an attorney at the Federal Reserve Board, where he drafted rules to implement the Dodd-Frank Act and advised the board on the legal permissibility of bank mergers and acquisitions. In 2023, Kress served as counsel to the assistant attorney general for antitrust at the US Department of Justice, focusing on bank merger policy.

Kress has testified before Congress and served as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Education and Industry Forum on Financial Services Culture. The Financial Times has recognized Kress’ work as “highly commended” academic research with real-world impact.

Kress graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Presidential Scholar. He holds a BBA from Michigan Ross.