Financial stability advice for central banks, and expert analysis for the institutions they supervise.

Dr. Rebel A. Cole founded KGC in 1998. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988.

For the next decade he worked as a staff economist for U.S. bank regulators. At the Federal Home Loan Bank Board he worked on the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. At the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas he worked on the banking crisis that followed. At the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, he oversaw the design, development, and implementation of SEER (the System for Estimating Examination Ratings), the Fed's primary system for off-site monitoring of banks and bank holding companies. He also served as co-principal investigator for the Survey of Small Business Finances.

He later taught at the University of Auckland, the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and DePaul University in Chicago, where he was Professor of Finance and Real Estate. Over his career he has taught finance to students in six countries: Australia, Bahrain, China, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States.

He comments regularly in the financial press and has appeared on CNN, Fox Business, the PBS Nightly Business Report, and local stations in South Florida and Chicago.