Michael Bright

Michael Bright served as interim president of Ginnie Mae from July 2017 to January 2019 and is CEO of the Structured Finance Association (SFA), the securitization industry's largest trade association. President Donald Trump nominated Bright to serve as Ginnie Mae's permanent president in May 2018 but the nomination was never confirmed despite being voted out of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs by a unanimous voice vote.

Education Bright has a B.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. in International Relations from its School of Advanced International Studies.

Career Bright began his career in 2002 at Countrywide Financial in Calabasas, Ca. as a modeler and trader. Later, he worked for Wachovia Bank as a trader in interest rate derivatives.

Entering government service, from 2009 to 2010, he was a mortgage data analyst in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. In 2013, while working for Senator Bob Corker he was a principal author of the Corker-Warner bill for housing finance reform.

Bright joined Ginnie Mae in July 2017 as executive vice president and chief operating officer. He served as its interim president from July 2017 until May 2018, after its previous president Ted Tozer left at the beginning of the Trump administration in January 2017.

In November 2017, he testified during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on "Sustainable Housing Finance: The Role of Ginnie Mae in the Housing Finance System." A week later, he became CEO at the Structured Finance Association.