William Longbrake Directory Page

William (Bill) Longbrake is executive in residence and senior financial policy advisor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, where he has served since 2009. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board and participates in the Center for Financial Policy, the Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium, and the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets. He teaches, advises students and faculty, and engages with business, policy, and nonprofit leaders on financial and governance issues.

He is a director of Broadway Financial Corporation (BYFC), City First Bank, City First Enterprises, and Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU), serving on audit, compensation, risk, loan, and governance committees. He serves on the Washington State Governor's Council of Economic Advisors. He served on the Washington State Investment Board (2010–23) and served on the Advisory Board of Simon Quick until 2022.

From 2018 to 2020, he was an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, where he co-authored a two-part study on a proposed state-chartered public cooperative bank. Earlier, he held executive roles at Washington Mutual and the FDIC, and served as senior policy advisor to the Financial Services Roundtable during the financial crisis.

He has served on numerous boards and committees in the public, private, academic, and nonprofit sectors, including in affordable housing and education. He is the author of the monthly “Longbrake Letter,” distributed by Maryland’s Center for Financial Policy.

He holds degrees in economics and business from the College of Wooster and the University of Wisconsin, and a Doctor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Maryland. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and is a Governance Fellow.