| Jay Brinkmann is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research and Education at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), where his responsibilities include economic forecasting, mortgage industry analysis, measuring mortgage industry profitability, and overseeing industry technology standards and MBA's education programs.
He has been with the Mortgage Bankers Association since 2001. Immediately prior to joining MBA, he worked in Fannie Mae's portfolio strategy group on risk-based capital issues. He is a native of New Orleans, began his career as a Capitol Hill press secretary and served as the deputy chief of staff to a governor of Louisiana. He has worked in commercial banking and was on the business school faculty at the University of Houston where he specialized in financial institution regulation and energy markets.
He has published articles on bank regulation and capital requirements in various academic journals and on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal, and is frequently quoted in print and electronic news outlets on real estate topics. Brinkmann holds a Ph.D. in finance from Purdue University and an MBA from Tulane University.
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