Ep 10: Craig Phillips, Former Counselor to the Secretary at the U.S. Treasury

27/05/2021 51 min
Ep 10: Craig Phillips, Former Counselor to the Secretary at the U.S. Treasury

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In this episode of On the Hill, Tim Rood, Head of Industry Relations, talks with Craig Phillips, the top housing advisor to former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. For the first time, Phillips takes us behind the scenes in the Trump administration and talks frankly about why efforts to move Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of conservatorship failed.

Phillips joined the administration in 2017 as a special counselor focused on domestic finance, housing finance policy and regulatory reform, and left in June 2019. He was previously a Managing Director and Member of the Operating Committee of BlackRock, where he served as head of financial markets advisory and client solutions, advising central banks, banking supervisors and multi-lateral organizations around the world, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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