Edward L. Golding

Overview

Edward L. Golding was named senior vice president of Freddie Mac's Capital Oversight and Economics department in October 2003. In this role, Golding is responsible for overseeing regulatory capital compliance and analysis of the mortgage market and our housing mission. Golding reports to Marty Baumann, chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance. In May 2000, Golding was named senior vice president of Capital and Economics. As head of Capital and Economics, he was responsible for capital management and economic and policy analysis of issues affecting Freddie Mac and the mortgage market. During this period Golding was a key figure in the Freddie Mac team that helped implement the risk-based capital rules under which Freddie Mac operates. Golding joined Freddie Mac in 1989 as senior economist and has held a variety of increasingly responsible economic research and policy jobs, including vice president of Financial Research beginning in 1993. Before coming to Freddie Mac, Golding had a number of senior-level positions in government and academia, including experience as a special assistant to the Board member at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, an economist with the Federal Trade Commission and as an assistant professor at the University of Florida and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Golding holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College.