Alfred M Pollard

Alfred Pollard serves as General Counsel of the FHFA. His supervision of FHFA’s Office of General Counsel includes work on regulatory matters affecting the housing government-sponsored enterprises and the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks, ¬in-house legal issues and relationships with other government agencies and the Administration. Prior to joining FHFA, Pollard served as Senior Director for Legislative Affairs at the Financial Services Roundtable, a CEO-level trade group for the nation’s largest financial institutions, and as Director of Government Relations for the Savings and Community Bankers of America. Before that, for 12 years, Pollard was Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington, D.C. office for Security Pacific Corporation and briefly for Bank of America. In addition, Pollard worked on the staffs of two U.S. Senators. Pollard serves on the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bank Fraud Working Group. He teaches (adjunct) at the Georgetown University School of Business and has previously taught at the University of Virginia School of Law (adjunct) and George Washington University School of Law. Mr. Pollard earned his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. He earned both his bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He lives in Alexandria, Va., with his wife, Susan. They have three adult children, Sarah, Nathan and Rachel.