Since November 2015, Alan Burch has served as Associate General Counsel for Enforcement and Litigation at the National Credit Union Administration. His team of lawyers defends the agency in litigation, supports the agency's enforcement activities involving federally insured credit unions and their officers and directors, and assists the liquidation and resolution of the estates of failed credit unions. Mr. Burch previously served as an Assistant Appellate Counsel in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, having joined that Office in 2003. In that position, he defended a wide variety of claims against federal agencies and officials and has argued dozens of appeals before the D.C. Circuit and other appellate courts. From 1994 to 2003, Mr. Burch worked in the Enforcement & Compliance Division of the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, investigating and litigating administrative actions for violations of banking law and anti-discrimination and consumer protection regulations. Mr. Burch teaches constitutional law at American University's School of Public Affairs in the fall semester. In the spring, he coaches high school crew.

Mr. Burch graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1994, where he served as Articles Editor for the Virginia Environmental Law Journal and where he also earned a master's degree in history. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Washington and a diplome semestriel from the Sorbonne in Paris.