Mary Ellen Egan is senior director, strategy and content, for American Banker Live Media. In her role, she shapes content development, operations and execution for American Banker's editorial rankings, including The Most Powerful Women in Banking™, The Most Innovative People in Finance, Innovation of the Year, and the creation of new performance-based rankings.
She also develops insightful, actionable programming for American Banker's live media portfolio, including The Most Powerful Women in Banking Conference and Honoree Roundtable, Payments Forum, Digital Banking, LEADERS and virtual summits, while contributing to programming development for Small Business Banking.
A veteran journalist, she has been a writer and editor at Forbes and The American Lawyer. Her work has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Law and the ABA Journal. She was most recently the managing editor of First Amendment Watch, a project of New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.