Alanna McCargo is president and CEO of FHLBank San Francisco. With more than 25 years of housing policy and financial services experience in the banking and secondary mortgage market, she most recently served as president of the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), a wholly owned government corporation with an over $2.5 trillion guarantee portfolio responsible for advancing affordable homeownership and rental housing and attracting global investment into the U.S. housing market. In 2021, she made history as the first woman and woman of color to be appointed by the President of the United States to serve in this role and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support. Previously, Ms. McCargo served as senior advisor for housing finance in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 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 2016-2021, she 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 JP Morgan 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 has dedicated her career and her public and community service to ensuring access to affordable housing finance and improving housing outcomes for individuals and households across the nation, with particular focus on a more equitable, sustainable, and accessible housing finance system.