Structure and organisation – Secretariat

Council of Members

The Council of Members is the supreme body of the Union. It comprises the Officers (President, First Deputy President and Secretary General), Deputy Presidents, Past-Presidents and World Congress Secretary or Secretaries of the Union, as well as one representative from each member not otherwise represented on the Council. It determines the general policy and affairs of the Union and it is convened every two years, at the biennial World Congresses. Meetings of the Council of Members are chaired by the President of the Union.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is responsible for implementing the policy set by the Council of Members and for overseeing the administrative affairs of the Union. The Committee comprises the President of the Union, up to ten Deputy Presidents, no more than twenty members (of which no more than three shall come from the same country) and the Secretary General.

President

Edward Seiler was elected President of the International Union for Housing Finance at the meeting of the Council of Members preceding the 32nd World Congress in Berlin in September 2024. Dr. Seiler is the Executive Director of the Research Institute for Housing America, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s think tank. He earned his PhD in economics from The University of Chicago, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Secretary General

Mark Weinrich took up his position as Secretary General of the International Union for Housing Finance on
2 September 2015. Mark Weinrich is also Manager for International Affairs and Statistics of the Association of Private German Bausparkassen in Berlin.

First Deputy President:
JORGE YARZA GARRIDO, Mexico

Deputy Presidents:
ANE ARNTH JENSEN, Denmark
JOSÉ LUIS VENTURA CASTAÑOS, Dominican Republic
JOHNSTONE KAILA OLTETIA,Kenya
MUCAHID KARABALIK, Türkiye

Executive Committee Members:
MAURICIO DE LA BARRA, Chile
CHRISTIAN KÖNIG, Germany
RENU SUD KARNAD, India