David M. Silberman

David M. Silberman is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a leading expert in issues of consumer finance. From 2010 to 2020, he served as a senior administrator in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). First appointed to the Implementation Team tasked with building the CFPB, Silberman later served both as CFPB’s Associate Director of Research, Markets, and Regulations and as Acting Deputy Director. From 1999 to 2010, he was General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Kessler Financial Services. Earlier in his career, Silberman served as Deputy General Counsel of the AFL-CIO and as President and CEO of Union Privilege, a not-for-profit affiliate of the AFL-CIO. He clerked for the Honorable Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and for the Honorable David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He received a B.A. from Brandeis University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Silberman also serves as a Senior Advisor at Financial Health Network, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Responsible Lending, and served as a Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School from 2021 to 2024.