David Min

Associate Director for Financial Markets Policy

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David Min is the Associate Director for Financial Markets Policy at American Progress. He leads the activities of the Mortgage Finance Working Group, a group of leading experts, academics, and progressive stakeholders in housing finance first assembled by the Center for American Progress in 2008 to better understand the causes of the mortgage crisis and create a framework for the future of the U.S. mortgage system. David also works on financial market issues for the Center. He is frequently quoted on these and other issues in various media outlets, including National Public Radio’s Marketplace, the Diane Rehm Show, Reuters, Associated Press, The Boston Globe, CNBC, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post.

Prior to joining the Center, he was a senior policy advisor and counsel with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, where he focused on policy solutions to the credit crisis, as well as other macroeconomic and financial markets issues. David was formerly the Banking Committee counsel for Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY). Before coming to Capitol Hill, David was a securities litigator, first as an Enforcement Division attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and later in the Washington, D.C. office of WilmerHale LLP.

David holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Email: dmin /@\ americanprogress.org