Peter Ryan
Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets and International Prudential Policy, SIFMA
Dr. Peter Ryan is Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets and International Prudential Policy at SIFMA.
Dr. Ryan leads SIFMA’s digital assets team and serves as staff advisor to SIFMA’s Digital Assets Committee, coordinating the organization’s digital assets initiatives across policy, regulatory, and operational priorities. This includes SIFMA’s work related to tokenization, digital money, and the prudential treatment of digital asset activities, amongst other issues. In this role, he sits on SIFMA’s Management Committee.
Dr. Ryan also leads SIFMA’s engagement on international prudential issues, including engagement with global standard-setting bodies and the domestic implementation of international standards. He oversees SIFMA’s advocacy on issues affecting internationally-headquarterd banks and helps support a range of prudential initiatives, including capital, liquidity, resolution, governance, and systemic risk. Dr. Ryan also helps to coordinate SIFMA’s regulatory strategy and strategic communications across a range of emerging and cross-cutting issues, including innovation-related topics, non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI), and Treasury market reform.
Prior to joining SIFMA in 2020, Dr. Ryan was Head of U.S. Regulatory Policy at Credit Suisse, where he coordinated the firm’s U.S. regulatory strategy and engagement and managed policy filings across banking, capital markets, and asset management. His prior roles at Credit Suisse included Ad Interim Head of U.S. Public Policy; Director, U.S. Regulatory Policy and Emerging Issues; and Vice President, Federal Regulatory Affairs. Prior to Credit Suisse, Dr. Ryan was a senior policy advisor for the Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Dr. Ryan holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on the development of international capital standards and derivatives policies. He also holds an M.Phil. in political science from Trinity College Dublin and a B.Sc. in government and public policy from University College Cork.