Summary of Presentation:
Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta President and CEO Richard Dorfman will offer some insights and impressions about the current state of the mortgage finance market, and actions that might break the current logjam in credit markets. Drawing from broad experience in investment banking and government finance, Mr. Dorfman will reflect on recent developments at the country’s government sponsored enterprises as well as member institutions of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta.

Richard Dorfman
President and Chief Executive Officer

Richard Dorfman began serving as President and Chief Executive Officer on June 20, 2007. Before coming to the Bank, he provided strategic and operational consulting and advisory work to several Federal Home Loan Banks and the Federal Home Loan Bank System’s Office of Finance. Prior to these engagements, Dorfman was the Managing Director & Head of U.S. Agencies and Mortgages at ABN Amro, Inc. from 1997 until 2005.
From 1983 until 1996, he held a number of senior executive positions with Lehman Brothers Inc., including the role as Head of Origination, U.S. Government and Agency Business. Under his management, the group was consistently recognized as one of the top managers of global securities offerings and was responsible for advising clients that included Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks.
Before becoming an investment banker, Dorfman was an attorney with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as well as a regulatory counsel for the New York Bank for Savings. He obtained his Juris Doctor from Syracuse University and Bachelor of Arts from Hofstra University.