Dan Quan is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, co-founder and general partner at Nevcaut Ventures, managing partner of Banks Street Advisory, and senior advisor for McKinsey’s banking practice. Quan previously served as senior advisor to the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where he led its fintech initiative, Project Catalyst.
At the CFPB, Quan’s work focused on identifying and promoting innovative technologies and business models to help solve the most complex issues in consumer finance. He supported policies aimed at enabling a thriving fintech environment, including consumer‐permissioned data access, open banking, and the use of artificial intelligence and alternative data in credit underwriting. Quan conceived the first regulatory sandbox at the federal level to create a safe harbor where fintech firms could experiment and innovate.
Before joining the CFPB, Quan was a research associate at Harvard Business School. Prior to that, he served as a consultant at Willis Towers Watson. Quan holds an MA in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from Drexel University’s Bennet S. LeBow College of Business. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).