Mrs. Gloria Glidden is the Head of the Banking Supervision Division of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, a position she has held for over five years.

With almost ten years regulatory experience and having served in various senior leadership roles at the Authority, including Deputy Head of the former Investments and Securities Division from October 2012 to March 2014, Mrs. Glidden is responsible for overseeing the supervision of both international and commercial banks and trusts, the development bank, as well as money services businesses, building societies and cooperative societies in the Cayman Islands. Currently, she is also providing oversight to the Investments Supervision Division, until a new Head of the division is appointed, and is actively involved in a number of internal and external local and international working groups to assist the Authority in achieving some of its strategic objectives.

Mrs. Glidden is a Certified Public Accountant with over twenty-five years post qualification experience spanning regulatory, audit, hedge fund administration, telecommunications, and utilities. Mrs. Glidden holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Accounting from the University of Miami and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Illinois CPA Society, and the Cayman Islands Institute of Professional Accountants.