Rosie Rios is Chair of America 250, the United States Congressional Commission planning the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. She served as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States in the Obama Administration from 2009-2016 managing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the U.S. Mint, including Fort Knox and was a Senior Advisor to the Secretary in the areas of community development and public engagement. She also initiated and led the efforts to place a portrait of a woman on U.S. Federal Reserve notes for the first time in history. Upon her resignation in 2016, she received the Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Rosie was the longest serving Senate-confirmed Treasury official beginning with her time on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Team in November 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. Following her tenure as Treasurer, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University with a focus on Millennials/Post-Millennials and resumed her role as CEO of Red River Associates, an investment management consulting firm and a co-host of several reality series focused on pre-IPO investments. Rosie again served on the Treasury/Federal Reserve Transition Team during the pandemic economy of 2020 on behalf of President Biden. 

In her role as Treasurer of the United States, Rosie’s day-to-day responsibilities included overseeing all currency and coin production activities with almost 4,000-employees in eight facilities nationwide and an annual budget of approximately $5 billion.  In the first five years of her tenure, she saved over $1 billion by implementing strategic efficiencies while meeting increased production demand and increasing employee morale at record levels. Her signature currently appears on a world-record $1.8 trillion of U.S. currency out of the approximately $2.2 trillion in circulation worldwide. She also served as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury in areas of community development and public engagement.

Rosie’s entire career has focused on real estate finance, economic development, and urban revitalization in both the public and private sectors. Prior to her presidential appointment in Treasury, Rosie was Managing Director of Investments for MacFarlane Partners, a $22 billion real estate investment management firm based in San Francisco. She was responsible for several of MacFarlane Partners’ urban investment activities including sourcing, underwriting, and structuring prospective investments and all relevant due diligence as well as overseeing projects during their development and stabilization.

Rosie is a graduate of Harvard University and is the first Latina in Harvard’s 388-year history to have a portrait commissioned in her honor. Her portrait was unveiled at Winthrop House in May of 2019. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and currently serves on the boards of American Family Insurance, Ripple Labs, and Fidelity Charitable Trust. She was previously a Trustee with the Alameda County Employees Retirement Association (ACERA). Her personal passion includes serving as Founder and CEO of EMPOWERMENT 2026, a non-profit that facilitates the physical recognition of historical American women.  Its educational projects highlighting historical American women in classrooms across the country include Teachers Righting History and Notable Women, an Augmented Reality initiative in collaboration with Google. In 2020, her legislation honoring historical American women, youth sports, and the 250^th anniversary of our nation’s founding on U.S. quarters was passed by Congress. She was honored as one of USA Today’s Women of the Century in 2020.