ROBERT E. BOSTROM

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL

Robert E. Bostrom was named executive vice president and general counsel at Freddie Mac effective February 1, 2006.  In his role as principal legal counsel to Freddie Mac, Bostrom reports directly to Chairman and CEO Richard F. Syron.  Bostrom is a member of the executive leadership team and has oversight and management responsibility for all legal and regulatory strategies, services, and resources and corporate governance matters.  He also serves on a number of executive management committees.

Bostrom joined Freddie Mac from Winston & Strawn LLP, where he had been managing partner of the New York office, a member of the firm's executive committee, and head of its financial institutions practice.  Bostrom originally joined Winston & Strawn in 1990.  At Winston & Strawn, in addition to his financial institutions practice, Bostrom advised clients in connection with corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley issues, the structuring of compliance and enterprise risk management programs and internal controls, Board of Director and Audit Committee issues, regulatory examinations, and strategic planning.  He advised various financial institutions in connection with federal and state supervisory actions and internal investigations involving compliance problems and potential violations of law.

While at Winston & Strawn, Bostrom served as the senior partner on teams supporting the special counsel to the Independent Consultant to the Audit Committee of the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD) pursuant to a consent order with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the NASD and NASDAQ market and the Independent Consultant to the Bear Stearns Securities Corporation in connection with the A.R. Baron & Co. consent order with the SEC.

From 1992 until 1996, Bostrom served as Executive Vice President of Legal, Regulatory and Compliance and General Counsel of National Westminster Bancorp (NatWest), a $32 billion bank holding company.  At NatWest, he was the executive officer responsible for corporate governance, legal, regulatory and compliance affairs, including regulatory examinations and supervisory relationships.  He was a member of the Office of the Chief Executive Officer, the Management Committee and the Risk Policy Committee.  He also served on the board of directors of NatWest Bank (Delaware) and Coutts International. 

Bostrom's legal career spans more than 25 years.  He is an expert on financial institutions regulation, corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley issues, director education, compliance and enterprise risk management programs, and internal controls at financial institutions.  He is a frequent lecturer, including at Duke University's Directors' Education Institute, and has written extensively on these subjects.

Bostrom received a B.A. with honors from Franklin & Marshall College, an M.I.A. from Columbia University, School of International Affairs, and a J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School.

Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned company established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing. Freddie Mac fulfills its mission by purchasing residential mortgages and mortgage-related securities, which it finances primarily by issuing mortgage-related securities and debt instruments in the capital markets. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible more than 50 million times, ensuring financing for one in six homebuyers and more than four million renters.

03/06