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Dr. Clifford Rossi is an Executive-in-Residence and Professor of the Practice at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Prior to entering academia, Rossi had nearly 25 years鈥� experience in banking and government, having held senior executive roles in risk management at several of the largest financial services companies.

His most recent position was Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer for Citigroup鈥檚 Consumer Lending Group where he was responsible for overseeing the risk of a $300+B global portfolio of mortgage, home equity, student loans and auto loans with 700 employees under his direction. While there he was intimately involved in Citi鈥檚 TARP and stress test activities. He also served as Chief Credit Officer at Washington Mutual (WaMu) and as Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer at Countrywide Bank.

Previous to these assignments, Rossi held senior risk management positions at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. He started his career during the thrift crisis at the U.S. Treasury鈥檚 Office of Domestic Finance and later at the Office of Thrift Supervision working on key policy issues affecting depositories. Rossi was also an adjunct professor in the Finance Department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business for eight years and has numerous academic and nonacademic articles on banking industry topics. Rossi is frequently quoted on financial policy issues in major newspapers and has appeared on such programs as C-SPAN鈥檚 Washington Journal and CNN鈥檚 Situation Room. He is currently writing a book, Fundamentals of Risk Management for John Wiley & Sons, Inc. His policy and research interests include GSE reform, housing finance reform , bank capital issues and implications of Dodd-Frank on banking.

Professor Edward W. De Barbieri teaches courses in community economic development law and directs the Community Economic Development Clinic, which focuses on community-based transactional skills and advocacy. His scholarship examines ways the public can engage in land use approvals and economic development activities and how that engagement can lead to reforms in economic and social systems. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review, Florida State University Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Fordham Urban Law Journal, and Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law.

Prior to joining the Albany Law School faculty in 2016, Professor De Barbieri directed a community economic development clinic at Brooklyn Law School, and was an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law. His background also includes work as a legal services attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center, beginning as an Equal Justice Works fellow. He spent his final year of law school conducting research in Ireland as a Fulbright fellow, and is a graduate of Yale Divinity School, where he concentrated in religious ethics.

LL.M. National University of Ireland, Cork, MAR Yale Divinity School, J.D. Brooklyn Law School

Jane Rongerude's research interests focus on the role of housing within urban systems of poverty management. Within these systems, she investigates how poverty is being dispersed, shifted and reformed within the urban landscape. As a result, she has developed a strong foundation of expertise in the areas of housing needs, housing policy, neighborhood revitalization, and community development.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she shifted her research to focus on the problem of rental housing instability. This work seeks to understand the role of landlord decision-making as it relates to rental housing outcomes. It investigates landlord characteristics, impacts, and responses to the pandemic.

Prof. Huang鈥檚 research is devoted to understanding the impact of sociodemographic and economic transformations and government policies.  Her research focuses on three different but related areas: 1) housing, 2) migration and urbanization, and 3) health and wellbeing.   Her research has a regional focus on China, and recently the U.S.  She is the (co-)author/(co-)editor of ten books, including Chinese Cities in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (Routledge 2014), China鈥檚 Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change (Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021).  She has also published many articles in some of the best journals in several fields, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The China Quarterly, Urban Studies, Cities, Housing Studies, Housing Policy Debate, and Environmental and Planning A.  She has served both the profession and the community in many leadership positions, and she is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) China Geography Specialty Group (CGSG) in 2019, and 鈥淧resident鈥檚 Award for Exemplary Public Engagement鈥� by University at Albany in 2020.