Robert Van Order holds the Oliver Carr Chair in Finance and Real Estate at George Washington University, where he is Professor of Finance and Economics, and has been since 2009. He was Chief Economist of Freddie Mac from1987 until 2002. He has taught at Purdue, USC, UCLA, Penn, Michigan and Aberdeen Universities, and worked at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has consulted on mortgage markets in Sri Lanka, India, Latvia, Russia, Ghana, Nicaragua, Brazil, Egypt, Colombia, Poland and Pakistan. His research interests are modeling credit risk, financial institutions, and financial policy. He received the George Bloom Distinguished Service Award: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association in 2007