President and Chief Executive Officer, FHLBank of San Francisco

Alanna McCargo has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the FHLBank of San Francisco since June 2024. With more than 25 years of housing policy and financial services experience in the banking and secondary mortgage market, Ms. McCargo most recently served as President of the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), where she made history as the first woman and woman of color to be appointed by the President of the United States to serve in that role. Previously, Ms. McCargo served as Senior Advisor for Housing Finance in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where she worked with key stakeholders to stabilize the housing market during the global pandemic, deploy housing relief programs, strengthen fair housing and fair lending, and improve housing affordability and access to financing. From 2016 to 2021, Ms. McCargo was Vice President of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute, an economic policy research firm, where she led and developed evidence-based research and analysis on the U.S housing finance system. Prior to that, she held leadership roles with CoreLogic and JPMorgan Chase and spent over a decade at Fannie Mae. Ms. McCargo has served on nonprofit boards focused on advancing affordable housing, tackling homelessness, and advancing opportunities for people and communities. She earned her B.A. from the University of Houston and her M.B.A from the University of Maryland.

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