Mary Lynne Calkins is a financial regulator and China scholar who most recently worked as counsel at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Her responsibilities at the FDIC included serving on the interagency working group that assisted the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in writing regulations under the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. Mary Lynne Calkins has investigated and ligated diverse claims related to failed financial institutions, including mortgage fraud and officer, director and auditor liability.
Ms. Calkins earned a BA cum laude in English and Chinese at Dickinson College and served as editor of the campus newspaper. She earned certification in Mandarin at Harbin Polytech University in China. Subsequently attending the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, she earned her JD with an emphasis on international trade, international and environmental law, federal white collar crime, and Chinese law.
In 2023, Ms. Calkins supplemented her qualifications by completing Stonier School of Banking's executive leadership program at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. She is licensed to practice in New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia, and admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court.