Eric Belsky is a nonresident fellow in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute and a 2026 visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is an expert in housing finance and policy, community development finance, and consumer protection regulation and supervision. He has served on nonprofit and corporate boards of directors and on advisory councils and committees to corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

From 2014 to 2025, Belsky was director of the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, directing consumer- and community-reinvestment-focused bank supervision, regulation, research, outreach, and policy analysis to promote a fair and transparent consumer financial services marketplace, financial inclusion, and effective community development. He also advised the chair and the Board of Governors on consumer protection and community reinvestment, and the division provided research and analysis on the economic conditions of low- and moderate-income households and communities. 

Before joining the Federal Reserve, Belsky worked for nearly 18 years at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, serving as executive director and then managing director. Before that, he led the Housing Finance and Credit Analysis Group at Price Waterhouse, served as director of housing finance research at Fannie Mae, was a senior economist at the National Association of Home Builders, and taught at both Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also was research director for the bipartisan Millennial Housing Commission established by Congress.

Belsky has coedited six books and authored numerous articles and book chapters and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Housing Research and Housing Policy Debate.