Winthrop Watson

Winthrop Watson was appointed by the Board of Directors as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective Jan. 1, 2011. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer of FHLBank Pittsburgh, a position that he assumed in Nov. 2009. Watson served as Managing Director at J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong from 2007-2009 after serving that company in various capacities in New York for 22 years. In Hong Kong, he served as Senior Client Executive for J.P. Morgan’s Asia Pacific central banks and sovereign wealth funds, as head of its Asia Pacific debt capital markets, and as Chairman of its Asia Pacific Investment Banking Business Evaluation Committee.

Earlier, Watson was Managing Director of J.P. Morgan in New York, where he helped build the company’s investment and commercial banking franchise for U.S. government-sponsored enterprises including the FHLBanks. His background also includes several financial advisory assignments on behalf of the FHLBanks.

Watson holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University.