David Silberman has been involved in consumer finance issues from a wide range of perspectives for four decades. From 1985-1997, first as Deputy General Counsel of the AFL-CIO and then as President and CEO of Union Privilege, a not-for-profit affiliate of the AFL-CIO, he led the development and oversaw the delivery of a range of consumer financial products and services to union members. After a brief stint in private practice, in 1999, Mr. Silberman was named General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Kessler Financial Services, a privately-held company providing marketing and advisory services to financial institutions and their affinity-group partners.
In 2010, Mr. Silberman joined the Implementation Team for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and then served as the Associate Director for the Division of Research, Markets, and Regulations until he retired from the Bureau in 2020. From January 2016 to November 2017, he also served as Acting Deputy Director of the Bureau.
Mr. Silberman currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Responsible Lending, a Senior Advisor to the Financial Health Network, and as a member of advisory committees for several research organizations focused on consumer finance. He also has taught courses in Consumer Finance law at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School, and a course in Consumer Finance Policy at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Mr. Silberman graduated from Brandeis University and Harvard Law School. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Chief Judge David Bazelon on the D.C. Circuit and then to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
