With a career spanning financial services and fair lending, artificial intelligence governance, legislative advocacy and complex litigation, Kenneth Edwards is currently a director for AI technology and product at GEICO, where he provides strategic legal counsel for innovative technology solutions leveraged across business lines.
Edwards has built a diverse legal and policy career spanning the public, private and nonprofit sectors. At JPMorgan Chase, he provided legal counsel to internal stakeholders, focusing on firm-wide compliance with fair lending laws. He later worked in Silicon Valley at a financial technology startup, where he developed strategies to engage with federal regulators and lawmakers on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in consumer lending.
Earlier in his career, Edwards was a member of the fair lending compliance group at Relman, Dane & Colfax in Washington, D.C., advising financial institutions on practices to ensure that similarly situated borrowers were treated equitably throughout the credit process.
He also served as vice president of federal affairs at the Center for Responsible Lending, where he provided policy guidance to congressional offices on issues including residential mortgage finance, credit and prepaid debit cards, indirect auto lending and payday lending. In that role, he testified before both federal legislative and regulatory bodies on access to credit.
Edwards began his legal career in commercial litigation at two international law firms and also served as a prosecutor in Texas. He clerked for U.S. District Judge Jerry L. Buchmeyer in Dallas.
In 2006, Edwards was selected as a fellow with the German Marshall Fund, through which he traveled to several European countries to engage with policymakers on a range of issues.
Edwards earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (1998), J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (2002) and M.P.P. from Princeton University (2010).