The Inspector General

Acting Inspector General

Fred W. Gibson

Fred W. Gibson leads OIG staff in promoting economy, efficiency, and effectiveness and preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse within the Board’s and the CFPB’s programs and operations. He joined the OIG as deputy inspector general in 2018 and began serving as acting inspector general in 2025.

Before joining the OIG, Mr. Gibson spent 12 years in private law practice with national and boutique finance firms. He began serving in the inspector general community in 1992 as a senior attorney at the Resolution Trust Corporation OIG. He later worked as counsel to the inspector general at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)—providing independent legal services to the inspector general, managers, and staff—while concurrently serving as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. He then went on to serve as the FDIC OIG’s principal deputy inspector general—leading the work of criminal investigators, auditors, evaluators, and other professionals—and later as the acting inspector general for the FDIC.

Mr. Gibson received a bachelor of arts in history from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s degree in Russian area studies from Georgetown University, and a juris doctor from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Bar of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice in numerous federal courts throughout the country.