Chief Legal Officer at HSBC Holdings PLC

Program:
Aspen Homeland Security Group

Biography

Stuart Levey is the Chief Legal Officer at HSBC Holdings PLC. Mr. Levey was the first Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence  in the US Department of the Treasury, serving from July 2004 to February 2011 under  Presidents Bush and Obama.

Since leaving the Treasury Department, Mr Levey was a Senior Fellow for  National Security and Financial Integrity at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to his Treasury appointment, Mr Levey served as the Principal Associate Deputy  Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, having previously served as an  Associate Deputy Attorney General and as the Chief of Staff of the Deputy Attorney  General.  He joined the Justice Department in 2001 after 11 years in private practice at the  Washington law firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin LLP (which merged into  Baker Botts LLP), where he had a litigation practice. 

Mr Levey graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1986 and from  Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 1989. He is a member of the Aspen Homeland Security Group.