Sarah Rosen Wartell

Executive Vice President

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Sarah Rosen Wartell is Executive Vice President of the Center for American Progress and leads the American Progress policy program on housing finance.

Ms. Wartell was one of the original architects of CAP’s business plan and helped to found CAP and CAP Action in 2003. Today, she oversees the Center’s policy program, while continuing her own work in economic policy and housing.

Ms. Wartell served as deputy assistant to the president for Economic Policy and deputy director of the National Economic Council in the Clinton administration, where she advised the president, led interagency policy development, and negotiated with Congress on banking, housing, and community development, consumer protection, pensions, bankruptcy, e-commerce, legal reform, and a host of other issues. She also oversaw the development of President Clinton’s New Markets and Consumer Protection and Financial Privacy initiatives.

From 1993 to 1998, she held various titles including deputy assistant secretary at the Federal Housing Administration in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where she focused on FHA reform, single-family finance, risk-sharing, credit reform, consumer protection under RESPA and manufactured housing standards, and other housing finance policy issues.

She also served as a consultant to the Millennial Housing Commission and the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. Earlier, she practiced law with the Washington, D.C. firm of Arnold & Porter.

She is a member of the board of directors of the Low Income Investment Fund, the Corporation for Enterprise Development, and the Center for Law and Social Policy.

She is a graduate of the Yale Law School and Princeton University.

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