Barbara W. Bishop is an attorney in New York City. She has practiced law for 30 years. Barbara is a Senior Managing Director in the Legal and Compliance Department at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., a global investment bank, which she joined approximately 22 years ago. As a member of the Legal Department, Ms. Bishop heads the Futures, Foreign Exchange, and Employment Practices, handling transactional, contractual, and advisory work on a global basis. She also practices in Litigation and Arbitration, and in Regulatory areas including internal investigations and Anti-Money Laundering. Ms. Bishop has been a member of the Internal Audit Committee, the Retail Products Committee, the Global Compliance Committee, and during her 16-month tenure as the Firm’s Acting Global Head of Human Resources, she also served on the Firm’s Operations Committee.

 

Ms. Bishop is a member of the firm’s president’s Advisory Council and is co-Chair of the Diversity Committee, which she founded. Prior to joining Bear, Stearns, Ms. Bishop was a senior litigator at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She served as a Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Rackets Bureau of the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. She also served in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and was cross deputy with the New York City Department of Finance and the New City Department of Investigations in investigations of tax fraud affecting the City of New York.

 

Ms. Bishop is a graduate of New York University School of Law, Stanford University, and the Solebury School in New Hope, Pa. She is married and the mother of two sons, one a senior at Scarsdale High School and another a sophomore at Skidmore College.