J. Andrew Spindler is President & CEO of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC), a not-for-profit organization that helps strengthen banking and financial sectors in developing and emerging market countries. Since its founding at U.S. presidential initiative in 1990, FSVC has sent more than 10,000 experts from the international financial, legal, and regulatory communities on 3,800 technical assistance missions to more than 70 countries. 

Before joining FSVC in 1993, Mr. Spindler served as a Senior Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he headed the Banking Studies and Analysis Function and Payments System Studies staff. While at the New York Fed, he helped develop the risk-based capital framework that has been adopted by most of the world’s bank supervisory authorities. He represented the New York Fed on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision from 1991 to 1993. 

Prior to joining the New York Fed in 1985, Mr. Spindler held international lending and strategic planning positions at Continental Illinois Bank. He was a fellow at The Brookings Institution from 1980 to 1983 and is the author of The Politics of International Credit: Private Finance and Foreign Policy in Germany and Japan (Brookings, 1984). 

Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers, Mr. Spindler holds PhD and MPA degrees from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and a bachelor's degree in government (international relations) from Harvard College. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Bretton Woods Committee. He retired in 2022 from the Board of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the supervisor of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), after serving 18 years in that capacity.

His forthcoming book, Helping Nations Prosper: How Financial Reform Drives Economic Advancement, will be published by Georgetown University Press in early 2027.