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Karyen Chu is
Chief of the Consumer Finance Research section in the FDIC’s Division of
Insurance and Research. Staff in the section conduct research on
consumer finance topics such as mortgages and savings, and have staffed
official FDIC studies and pilot programs including the FDIC National
Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households, the FDIC National Survey
of Banks' Efforts to Serve the Unbanked and Underbanked,
the FDIC Study of Bank Overdraft Programs and the FDIC
Small-Dollar Loan Pilot Project. Staff in the section also provide
analytic support for policy-making and statistical modeling support for
fair lending examinations and unfair and deceptive acts and practices (UDAP)
enforcement cases to the FDIC’s Division of Supervision and Consumer
Protection.
Previously, Karyen was a health policy researcher at Mathematica Policy
Research, where she worked on studies of Medicaid managed care and
health care market changes. Karyen received her PhD in Economics from
the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a Masters in
Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and a
Bachelors of Arts from Occidental College. |
