Michael LaCour-Little joined Fannie Mae in 2016 as Director of economics. He recently retired from the position and now works as a visiting Research Scholar at the Congressional Budget Office. Prior to a ten-year stint in academia, he worked for decades in banking at Wells Fargo and Citibank, including their mortgage companies. He continues to serve on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals and is the author of dozens of peer-reviewed papers on topics in housing economics and real estate finance. A native of California, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and undergraduate and MBA degrees at the University of California.