Christin Patel was appointed senior vice president of the National Procurement Office in 2024. She has responsibility for leading the Federal Reserve System’s enterprisewide sourcing and procurement strategy, as well as managing strategic procurement decisions to maintain the integrity and efficiency of procurement for the Federal Reserve.

Patel joined Richmond Fed in 2008 as a strategic management consultant and worked at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors as a supervisory financial analyst. In 2012, she was selected as special assistant to the Bank’s first vice president and, beginning in 2016, served in assistant vice president roles as Corporate Secretary and in the National Procurement Office and the Federal Reserve’s Enterprise Resource Planning Support Office, where she most recently served as vice president.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in international business from Notre Dame College of Ohio and her master’s degree in international commerce and policy from George Mason University.