Larry R. Felix (b. 1958) is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who is currently the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, having held that office since January 2006.
Larry R. Felix was born in 1958 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.[1] He attended Brooklyn Technical High School.[2] He worked at Irving Trust to pay his way through the New York City College of Technology, from which he graduated in 1980.[3] He later obtained a degree from the City College of New York, and did doctoral work at Columbia University.[4]
Felix joined the United States Department of the Treasury in 1983 as an account manager in the Savings Bond Division.[5] In 1992, he moved to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as Manager of Marketing in the Office of Communications.[6] He later became the Chief of the Office of External Relations and then Associate Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for Technology and later Deputy Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.[7] He chaired the Inter-Agency Currency Design taskforce, which recommended technical improvements to United States currency.[8]
In 2006, United States Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snow named Felix Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and Felix assumed office on January 11, 2006.[9]
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| Preceded by Thomas A. Ferguson |
Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing January 2006 – Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |