EDWARD L. GOLDING
Senior Vice President, Economics and Policy
Program Executive, Making Home Affordable
Edward L. Golding was appointed in March 2009 to the position of senior vice president, Economics and Policy, and program executive of Making Home Affordable (MHA). In this position Golding serves as a key liaison to Treasury, FHFA, and other external agencies on MHA and provides analysis of the housing and mortgage markets for management and the Board. Golding oversees the Project Management Office for MHA, Office of the Chief Economist and a strategy function.
Prior to that, in February 2007, Golding was named senior vice president of Equity Investor Relations, and later head of Debt Investor Relations. In that position, Golding was responsible for communications of financial results to investors and Wall Street analysts.
Previously, Golding served as senior vice president of Freddie Mac's Economics and Strategic Analysis department starting in February 2005.
In May 2000, Golding was named senior vice president of Capital and Economics. As head of Capital and Economics, he was responsible for capital management and economic and policy analysis of issues affecting Freddie Mac and the mortgage market. During this period Golding was a key figure in the Freddie Mac team that helped implement the risk-based capital rules.
Golding joined Freddie Mac in 1989 as senior economist and has held a variety of increasingly responsible economic research and policy jobs, including vice president of Financial Research beginning in 1993.
Before coming to Freddie Mac, Golding had a number of senior-level positions in government and academia, including experience as a special assistant to the Board member at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, an economist with the Federal Trade Commission and as an assistant professor at the University of Florida and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Golding holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and an A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College.
Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible for one in six homebuyers and more than five million renters.
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