Bair was Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2006 to 2011. She left the FDIC in June 2011 to join the Pew Charitable Trust as a senior advisor, a role she held from 2011 through 2015. Bair also served as president of Washington College from 2015 to 2017, and senior advisor to international law firm DLA Piper, from 2014 to 2015. Earlier in her career, Bair was assistant secretary for financial institutions at the Department of the Treasury, senior vice president for government relations of the New York Stock Exchange, commissioner and Acting Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.