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2023 Scorecard
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Daniel E. Coates serves as the Acting Chief of Staff. Prior to serving in his current role, Coates served as the Deputy Director of the Division of Research and Statistics (DRS) at the Federal Housing Finance Agency. As the Deputy Director, he was responsible for using economics, research, and data analytics to enhance FHFA's regulatory policy, supervision, and oversight.
Coates is the Executive Sponsor of FHFA's Climate Change and ESG working groups and Chair of the FHFA’s Climate Change and ESG Steering Committee. He also represents FHFA at the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s Climate-related Financial Risk Committee, and at the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System. He also serves as FHFA’s representative to the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group chaired by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Since 2018, he has served as the Chairman of the FHFA's Reference Rate Transition Steering Committee, which oversees the FHFA's regulated entities' transitions away from LIBOR and other reference rates. Coates is also the FHFA's representative to the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC).
Dan previously served as Senior Advisor to the Acting Director. Before that, he served as a Senior Associate Director in FHFA's Division of Federal Home Loan Bank Regulation, where he led a team of economists and financial analysts. His team was responsible for targeted credit and market risk examinations to support the FHFA's examinations of the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks). Additionally, Coates led a team of financial analysts who evaluated the financial condition and performance of the FHLBanks.
Before joining FHFA, Coates served as an Associate Director leading the Division of Research at the Federal Housing Finance Board.
Dan spent 10 years at the U.S. General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office (GAO)). He earned his Ph.D. (with distinction) in economics from Columbia University, and his MA and BS in economics from the University of Delaware.
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