Carol Rabenhorst

Carol Rabenhorst is an internationally-recognized senior legal expert in real estate law, property rights, and mortgage finance. She has worked in 25 developing and transitioning economies in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and Southern Asia to reform the legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks relating to the establishment and improvement of property rights, registration systems, and real estate markets in these various country contexts. She has frequently served as legal component leader for assessment of conditions in relevant sectors and for development and implementation of recommendations for long-term interventions, including drafting or amending laws, regulations, institutional arrangements, and mortgage lending procedures and documentation. Ms. Rabenhorst is Program Lead for the Finance and Housing Program within the Center on International Development and Governance at the Urban Institute, and as such is responsible for managing and providing technical input for numerous projects within those sectors. Prior to her international work for the Urban Institute, Ms. Rabenhorst was engaged in the private practice of law for 14 years. A partner in a Washington, DC law firm, she specialized in real estate law and commercial and residential property development.

Areas of expertise: International mortgage law and regulation; property registration; property rights; and municipal property management.

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