Laurie Goodman

Institute Fellow, Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute, Urban Institute

Laurie Goodman is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. She founded the Housing Finance Policy Center at Urban in 2013, and was its Director or Co-Director from 2013-2021. This Center provides policymakers with data-driven analyses of housing finance policy issues that they can depend on for relevance, accuracy, and independence.

Prior to joining Urban in 2013, Laurie spent 30 years as a mortgage-backed securities analyst and research department manager at a number of Wall Street firms, including Amherst Securities Group, LP, where she developed a reputation for her analysis of housing policy issues, and UBS, where she was a top ranked research analyst. She began her career as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Laurie serves on the Board of Directors of MFA Financial and Arch Capital Group Ltd; she is also a consultant to The Amherst Group. She has published more than 250 articles in professional and academic journals and co-authored/co-edited five books. She has a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an AM and PhD in Economics from Stanford University.