Jelena McWilliams (née Obrenić; born July 29, 1973)[1] is a Serbian-American business executive and a former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Born Jelena Obrenić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Обренић) in Belgrade, Serbia, in the former Yugoslavia, McWilliams traveled to the United States at age 18 as part of a high-school exchange program.

[4] McWilliams graduated with highest honors with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree from the UC Berkeley School of Law.

[7] On November 30, 2017, the White House press secretary issued a release announcing the President's intention to nominate McWilliams to serve as chairperson of the FDIC.

[8] By year-end 2017, Fifth Third determined that if McWilliams were confirmed as FDIC head, it would not move to have her return the $300,000 signing bonus the bank had paid her when she joined its staff.

And my door is always open to those willing to engage in a manner that befits the venerated institution we are privileged to serve.In the piece, McWilliams had also cited the loss of her "family’s meager savings [which] disappeared overnight when a local bank collapsed at the onset of Yugoslavia’s civil war."

She will lead the new office and be joined by Elad Roisman, former commissioner and acting chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Jennifer S. Leete, former associate director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement "as partners, Cravath said.