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Jay Brinkmann is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research and Economics for the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), where his responsibilities include economic forecasting, mortgage industry analysis, the benchmarking of industry profitability, and analysis of legislative and regulatory issues.
He joined the Mortgage Bankers Association in early 2001 and headed MBA's research group. He was named Chief Economist in 2008. Immediately prior to MBA, he worked in Fannie Mae's portfolio strategy group. 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.
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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