Claude Rollin retired from the FDIC in December 2017 after 31 years at the agency. He joined the FDIC as an Honors Attorney in Banking Law and rose through the ranks to become Special Assistant to the Vice Chairman and then Deputy to a member of the FDIC's Board of Directors. He also worked on international bank supervision and regulatory issues at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the last major financial crisis in the United States.

Mr. Rollin served as Special Assistant and then Deputy to John M. Reich, first when Mr. Reich was Vice Chairman of the FDIC and later when the President appointed him to be Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision ("OTS"). In those positions, Mr. Rollin advised the Director on all matters that came before the Board, including complex supervisory, deposit insurance, and bank resolution/receivership matters, as well as several systemic risk determinations. Director Reich also tasked Mr. Rollin with heading up a major interagency regulatory review program conducted pursuant to the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act (EGRPRA), involving the FDIC, OCC, Federal Reserve, OTS, and the NCUA. During the most recent housing crisis, Mr. Rollin conceived, organized, and managed the National Housing Forum at the National Press Club for three consecutive years to discuss the outlook for housing, key challenges and risks facing the mortgage industry, and critical consumer protection issues.

Early in his career, Mr. Rollin served as an Attorney, Senior Attorney, Counsel, and Senior Counsel in the Regulation and Legislation Section of the FDIC's Legal Division. In those roles, he functioned as the Corporation's primary legal advisor on banking and regulatory issues involving assessments, deposit insurance coverage, applications for new banks, and other open-bank regulatory matters. As Senior Counsel, he supervised a team of attorneys who drafted, interpreted, and implemented a wide variety of federal and state banking laws.

Mr. Rollin also served as a consultant on deposit insurance issues for government officials in other countries, as well as for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  He reviewed and advised on draft laws to establish deposit insurance systems in several countries, including China, Russia, Thailand, and Ukraine  He also conceived and organized the FDIC's first International Conference on Deposit Insurance, which brought together deposit insurance authorities, central bankers, and bank supervisors from 62 countries, along with representatives from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the IMF, to discuss a wide range of deposit insurance issues. Following the conference, Mr. Rollin helped form the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI), an international organization representing deposit insurers around the world.

For three years, Mr. Rollin served as Special Assistant to another member of the FDIC's Board of Directors, Joe Neely.  In that role, he provided advice and counsel to the Board member on all matters coming before the Board of Directors and helped establish and run the FDIC's Audit Committee. He also created "Stats at a Glance" to give FDIC Board members quick access to key statistical information.

Since retiring, Mr. Rollin has helped manage finances and investments for individuals, companies, trusts, and not-for-profit organizations. He serves on the boards of two organizations and is president of a U.S.-based not-for-profit that supports a museum in Austria. He also assists his daughter in managing her highly successful eating disorder therapy practice. He continues to travel with his wife, Kathy, both domestically and internationally, and has now visited a total of seventy-one countries and forty-nine states.