ROBERT VAN ORDER

From 1987 until 2003 Robert Van Order was Chief Economist and Chief International Economist of Freddie Mac, where he was involved in a wide range of financial and mortgage market research and analysis. He has taught at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Purdue University, the University of Southern California, Queens University in Canada, American University in Washington, D.C., Ohio State University, George Washington University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C, and he has worked at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  He has consulted on mortgage markets in Sri Lanka, India, Latvia, Russia, Ghana, Nicaragua, Brazil, Egypt, Colombia, Poland and Pakistan. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the National Mortgage Company in Russia, and he is currently teaching at the University of Michigan and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.