Willard Ogburn

President, Board of Directors

Will Ogburn has been the Executive Director of the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) since 1987. NCLC is a low income advocacy organization, publisher of the major treatises on consumer law, a support center for legal aid programs, and sponsor of the annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference. The Center is sometimes called 'the nation's consumer law experts.' 

Mr. Ogburn has presented and written widely on consumer law. He has served as Deputy Commissioner of Banks in Massachusetts; in the Executive Office of the President; with Congress' Legislative Reference Service; in the Law Reform Unit of Cleveland Legal Aid; as a member and Chair of the Federal Reserve Board Consumer Advisory Council; and on the Board of Directors of the Consumer Federation of America and the National Association of Consumer Advocates. 

He was awarded the National Association of Consumer Advocates' Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, and the William J. Proxmire Lifetime Achievement Award by the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers in 2001.