Jaclene Begley

Jaclene Begley is an economist on the Foundational Research Team in Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research Group. She leads a team focused on research that supports the company’s housing affordability and mission-related work. Her research broadly focuses on homeownership, mortgages and real estate finance, and the housing decisions of older adults. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Wall Street Journal. She joined Fannie Mae in 2017.

Jaclene sits on the board of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). She is also a nonresident senior fellow at GWU’s Center for Washington Area Studies and a research affiliate with the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She has been visiting faculty at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. She also spent a summer as a graduate researcher at The University of Hong Kong. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a commercial real estate acquisitions analyst for both LaSalle Investment Management/JLL and RREEF/Deutsche Bank.

Jaclene has a B.B.A. in finance from The University of Notre Dame, an M.C.P. from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in public policy from New York University.