Federal Reserve Gov Michelle Bowman to Give 2026 Conference Keynote

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman will give the morning keynote speech on the first day of the 2026 Community Banking Research Conference, which will be held Oct. 6-7, 2026.

The 14th annual conference brings together community bankers, academics, policymakers and bank regulators to discuss the latest research on community banking. The invitation-only conference will be hosted at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis with a livestream option of the conference proceedings available to all at communitybanking.org.

Vice Chair Bowman has been serving as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System since Nov. 26, 2018. Initially appointed to fill the remainder of an unexpired term, she was reappointed for a full 14-year term that ends Jan. 31, 2034. On June 9, 2025, Bowman was sworn in as the third Vice Chair for Supervision and is responsible for overseeing the supervision and regulation of depository institution holding companies and other financial firms supervised by the Board.

As the only member of the Board with banking and state supervisory experience, she chairs the Board's Subcommittee on Smaller and Regional Community Banking, and serves on the Board's Payments, Clearing and Settlement Committee.

In addition to her work at the Board, Bowman chairs the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, an interagency body tasked with promoting consistency in financial examinations. Her international roles include serving on the Governors and Heads of Supervision group of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and as the U.S. Plenary member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), where she chairs the FSB's Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation. She is also a member of the advisory board of the Financial Stability Institute of the Bank for International Settlements.

Prior to her appointment, she served as the state bank commissioner of Kansas from January 2017 to November 2018. She also served as vice president of Farmers & Drovers Bank in Kansas from 2010 to 2017.

The Community Banking Research Conference is sponsored by the Federal Reserve, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC). For more details about the conference, visit communitybanking.org.