Tamara Culler

Tamara Culler is the Acting Deputy Comptroller for Operational Risk Policy at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC).

In this role, Ms. Culler oversees development of policy and examination procedures addressing operational risk, bank information technology, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure resilience, payments systems, and corporate and risk governance.

Before her current role, Ms. Culler served as the Director for Governance and Operational Risk Policy where she managed the team responsible for establishing governance and operational risk policy. She addressed emerging issues in corporate and risk governance, bank management, and operations, and represented the OCC on various interagency working groups, committees, and forums.

Ms. Culler has also served as the Senior Advisor to the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Large Bank Supervision, where she was an expert advisor on a broad range of policies, procedures, and special projects affecting the large bank portfolio, specific institutions, and OCC operations. Before that, Ms. Culler served in various supervision roles in Large Bank Supervision and Midsize and Community Bank Supervision. She was also a member of the agency’s inaugural enterprise risk management team.

Ms. Culler began her OCC career in 2005. She was commissioned as a National Bank Examiner in 2010 and attained the Federal Thrift Regulator certification in 2014. Ms. Culler is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a concentration in finance.