Rajeev V. Date is the associate director of the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the federal agency that holds primary responsibility for regulating consumer protection in the United States. On July 17, 2011, President Barack Obama, who supported the establishment of the new agency, chose Richard Cordray, a former...

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Date graduated from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 and Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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Prior to joining CFPB, he worked at Capital One

Capital One

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 and Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank

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. He left the banking industry in 2009 to start the Cambridge Winter Center, a nonprofit think tank

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 devoted to promoting the regulation of financial firms.

Date joined the bureau in February 2011 as associate director of research, markets and regulations, where he oversaw work on credit cards and mortgages. He succeeded Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren is an American bankruptcy expert, policy advocate, Harvard Law School professor, and Democratic Party candidate in the 2012 United States Senate election in Massachusetts. She has written several academic and popular books concerning the American economy and personal finance. She...

as special advisor when she stepped down from the agency on August 1, 2011.