Raj V. Date

Former Deputy Director

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Raj V. Date served as the first Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Prior to that, Date served as the Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. Date worked for more than a decade in the financial services industry, both at Capital One Financial, where he was a Senior Vice President, and later at Deutsche Bank, where he was a Managing Director.

In 2009 he left to found the Cambridge Winter Center, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to fostering an informed discourse on U.S. financial institutions policy. At Cambridge Winter, he served as Chairman and Executive Director, conducting research on a variety of financial issues, including the housing finance market, small business credit, and consumer protection. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School.