Navigant Consulting Appoints Glassman to Board of Directors

Chicago-based Navigant Consulting Inc., a global risk management and financial services consulting firm, has appointed Cynthia A. Glassman to serve an initial term on Navigant’s Board of Directors in the class of directors whose term expires in 2012.

Dr. Glassman has spent more than 35 years in the public and private sectors focusing on financial services regulatory and public policy issues. Most recently she served as under secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2006 to January 2009.

Prior public sector experience included serving as a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (including serving as the acting chairman in the summer of 2005), serving in a variety of economist roles for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and senior economist roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Complementing her public sector experience, Dr. Glassman was a Principal at Ernst & Young in the commercial banking risk management and the quantitative economics and statistics practices. She was also a managing director in the financial services regulatory and public policy practices at Furash & Company, and served as a senior economist at Economists Inc. She currently serves on the Board of Discover Financial Services and is a Trustee of the SEC Historical Society.

Source: Navigant Consulting, www.navigantconsulting.com