Sam Valverde is a nonresident fellow in the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Before joining Urban, he was vice president for industry engagement at Freddie Mac, where he led the Single-Family Division’s Affordable Lending Group. Previously, Valverde served in leadership roles within the federal government. Across his career in public service, he has worked to develop market-based solutions to improve economic outcomes for all Americans.

Most recently, Valverde led Ginnie Mae as acting president, serving as the enterprise’s first Latino executive. He advanced new securities disclosures and established a Social Impact and Sustainability Framework, which helped drive additional liquidity for government-backed mortgages made to rural and low-income borrowers.

Before joining Ginnie Mae, Valverde was a supervisory attorney adviser at the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the Division of Conservatorship Oversight and Readiness. He led agency-wide projects to support greater access to mortgage credit and affordable rental opportunities for working families.

Valverde began his career in public service at the US Department of the Treasury, focusing on housing and consumer finance issues. He worked on issues related to the ongoing conservatorships of the GSEs and implementation of the housing programs under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

Valverde began his career as a securities lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He received his AB from Dartmouth College and his JD from Yale Law School.