William J. Bynum
Chief Executive Officer
Hope Credit Union, Hope Enterprise Corporation,
and Hope Policy Institute
Jackson, Mississippi
Appointed: April 28, 2022
Term expires: December 31, 2025
William J. Bynum has served as chief executive officer of Hope Credit Union, Hope Enterprise Corporation, and Hope Policy Institute, collectively known as HOPE, since their inception in 1994.
HOPE is a family of development organizations dedicated to strengthening the financial health and wealth of people in underresourced communities in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. HOPE has generated more than $4 billion in financing that has benefited more than 2.5 million individuals in the Deep South while shaping policies and practices that have improved conditions in opportunity-starved communities nationwide.
Mr. Bynum is a member of the boards of directors of the New Orleans Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Aspen Institute, Acumen America , the Legal Defense Fund, and Deep South Today.
He previously chaired the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Consumer Advisory Board and Treasury Department Community Development Advisory Board. He also served on the US Treasury Department's Advisory Committee on Racial Equity and as a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan's Gerald Ford School of Public Policy.
Mr. Bynum earned his BA in political science and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.