Don M. Wilson III

Who is Don M. Wilson III?

Don M. Wilson III is an American banker and an expert in global capital markets and risk management. He was appointed as the first Chief Risk Officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2003 and retired in 2006. He began his career in the management training program at Chemical Bank in New York in 1973 and later held senior executive positions in New York, Tokyo, and London.

On June 8, 2013, he was awarded the Tuck Overseers Medal from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

On March 28, 2008, Bank of Montreal, Canada's first bank, founded in 1817, which is also known as BMO Financial Group, announced that Wilson had been appointed to its Board of Directors. He is Chair of the Risk Review Committee of the BMO Board. . In 2011, PineBridge Investments appointed Wilson to its Board of Directors.

A native of Ravenna, Ohio, he was inducted into the community's Ravenna Raven Hall of Fame in 1992. He graduated as valedictorian at Ravenna High School in 1966.

He is also on the Board of Directors of Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, Inc. and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as a trustee of St. Bernard's School, a boys' private school in New York which two of his children attended. He has been a Trustee at the Brick Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Beginning in 2005, Wilson has served as Chairman of Tuck Annual Giving at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and has served as an Overseer at Tuck School for more than ten years. Since 2005 Wilson has served as Chair of Leadership Giving and Chair of Reunion Giving for the Harvard University Class of 1970. In 2003 he was given the Albert H. Gordon '23 Award by the Harvard College Fund. For many years Wilson has served on the Museum & Archives Committee at the United States Golf Association.