Laurie Goodman is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. She founded the Housing Finance Policy Center at Urban in 2013, and was its Director or Co-Director from 2013-2021. This Center provides policymakers with data-driven analyses of housing finance policy issues that they can depend on for relevance, accuracy, and independence.

Prior to joining Urban in 2013, Laurie spent 30 years as a mortgage-backed securities analyst and research department manager at a number of Wall Street firms, including Amherst Securities Group, LP, where she developed a reputation for her analysis of housing policy issues, and UBS, where she was a top ranked research analyst. She began her career as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Laurie serves on the Board of Directors of MFA Financial and Arch Capital Group Ltd, and is a consultant to The Amherst Group. She has published more than 250 articles in professional and academic journals and co-authored/co-edited five books. She has a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an AM and PhD in Economics from Stanford University.