2017 – 30th IUHF World Congress, Washington D.C.

The 30th World Congress of the IUHF took place in Washington D.C. from 25 to 27 June 2017 under the motto
“Global Opportunities in Housing Finance?”

Program

Monday 26 June 2017

Opening Ceremony and 1st Session: Regional developments in housing finance and the economy

David Stevens, President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, USA
Andreas J. Zehnder, President of the International Union for Housing Finance and Managing Director of the European Federation of Building Societies, Germany: Global opportunities in housing finance? – European context
Cas Coovadia, Member of the Board of the African Union for Housing Finance and Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, South Africa: Regional developments in housing finance and the economy – Africa
Sebastian Fernández, President of Uniapravi and Director at Infonavit, Mexico:
Housing markets in Latin America & the Caribbean: Challenge or opportunity?
Zaigham Mahmood Rizvi, Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Union for Housing Finance, Pakistan:
Asia-Pacific: Regional developments in housing finance

2nd Session: The housing finance debate in the United States: an update

Alex J. Pollock, Distinguished Senior Fellow and financial systems studies director at the R Street Institute, USA:
The U.S. government in the mortgage business – or: Who is the socialist?
Mike Fratantoni, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the Mortgage Bankers Association, USA:
GSE Reform: creating a sustainable, more vibrant secondary mortgage market
Edward J. DeMarco, President of the Housing Policy Council of the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington DC, USA: Secondary mortgage market reform: Summary of Milken Institute proposal
Rohit Gupta, President & Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Mortgage Insurance, Genworth, USA:
Making housing finance more sustainable

3rd Session, panel discussion: Lessons learned from the global financial crisis

Steve O’Connor, Senior Vice President of Public Policy and Industry Relations at the Mortgage Bankers
Association, USA (moderation) – Panel slides
Keith Bickel, Senior Vice President, Mortgage Policy & Strategic Analysis Executive at Bank of America, USA
Andy Miller, Director of Regulatory and Housing Policy & Managing Chief Counsel, Mortgage at the
PNC Financial Services Group, USA
Pete Carroll, Executive Vice President at Quicken Loans, USA
Michael D. Calhoun, President of the Center for Responsible Lending, USA

4th Session: Global developments in housing and housing finance

Michael Lea, Principal of Cardiff Consulting Services, USA: Global trends in housing finance
Eugenio M. Cerutti, Assistant to the Director at the International Monetary Fund, USA:
Housing finance and real estate booms:  A cross-country perspective

5th Session: Market integration, cross-border issuance and investment

Deniz Igan, Deputy Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund, USA:
Housing finance market integration: Setting the scene
Jakob Kongsgaard Olsson, Department Head at Finance Denmark, Denmark:
Market integration, harmonization and Basel IV
Richard Koss, Resident Scholar in the IMF’s Research Department and the Director
of the IMF’s Global Housing Watch Initiative, USA: Cross-Border Investment in the US Mortgage Market

Evening event for congress delegates and accompanying persons at Decatur House at the invitation
of the Research Institute for Housing America, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s think tank

Tuesday 27 June 2017

6th Session: Savings schemes to finance housing

Mark Weinrich, Secretary General of the International Union for Housing Finance, Germany:
„Bausparen” – a proven system of housing finance
Sebastian Fernández, President of Uniapravi and Director at Infonavit, Mexico:
Re-imagining Mexican affordable housing
Cláudia Magalhães Eloy, Consultant at Magalhães Eloy Consultoria, Brazil:
Savings schemes to finance housing in Brazil
John C. Driscoll, Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, USA:
Saving for housing – or lack thereof in the United States

7th Session: International trends in the regulation of mortgage markets

Christian König, Head of Legal Affairs at the Association of Private Bausparkassen, Germany:
International trends in the regulation of mortgage markets
Masahiro Kobayashi, Director General, Research and Survey Department, and Director General for
International Affairs, Corporate Strategy Department, Japan Housing Finance Agency:
International trends in the regulation of mortgage markets
Christopher Ahn, Director, Enterprise Risk Management, Global Mortgage Insurance at Genworth, USA:
International trends in the regulation of mortgage markets

8th Session: Tackling the housing affordability challenge

Andrew Heywood, independent consultant and editor of Housing Finance International (HFI), United Kingdom:
Tackling the housing affordability challenge
Roland Igbinoba, Founder of Pison Housing Company, Nigeria: Tackling the housing affordability challenge
Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Nigeria:
Tackling the housing affordability challenge – the Nigeria experience
Pedro Váldez Valderrama, Vice President for Business Development at Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal, Mexico:
Tackling the housing affordability challenge – the Mexican experience

9h Session: Making mortgage finance work

Muhammad Ejaz, Chief Executive Officer at Arif Habib Dolmen REIT Management, Pakistan:
Making mortgage finance work
Renu Sud Karnad, Managing Director of HDFC, India: Making mortgage finance work
José Shabot Cherem, Chairman of ION Financiera, Mexico: Making mortgage finance work

For detailed information please visit the congress website.