Jamie Woodwell Vice President Commercial/Multifamily Research Research and Economics

Jamie Woodwell is Vice President in the Research and Economics group at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). As the leader of MBA's research on commercial and multifamily finance issues, Woodwell is responsible for economic, market, industry and policy analysis.

Woodwell oversees MBA's original research on commercial/multifamily real estate markets and the development and production of research reports, articles and presentations. Woodwell is a regular speaker at industry, member and other events, and he and his work are frequently featured in both print and television media.

Woodwell also has staff responsibility for special MBA projects including its Council to Shape Change and the Council on Ensuring Mortgage Liquidity, a collection of 23 industry leaders representing MBA's diverse membership who were tasked with looking beyond the current mortgage crisis, to what a functioning secondary mortgage market should like for the long term. In September of 2009, the Council came out with "Future Government Role in the Core Secondary Mortgage Market," the Council's suggested framework for government involvement in the single-family and multifamily secondary mortgage markets, with a particular focus on the roles currently played by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Woodwell came to the Mortgage Bankers Association from Fannie Mae's multifamily group. He has also worked at CapitalThinking in New York, the WMF Group in Virginia, and the National League of Cities in Washington, D.C. Woodwell received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Pittsburgh.


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