Hon. Allan I. Mendelowitz, Ph.D. is the President of the ACTUS Financial Research Foundation. His most recent government service was as the Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board, the regulator of the Federal Home Loan Banks. He has served in a number of prior federal government positions including Executive Director of the Congressional Trade Deficit Review Commission, Executive Vice President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and Managing Director of the U.S. GAO. Previously he was a Brookings Institution Economic Policy Fellow. He has published in scholarly journals and popular publications, lectured widely in the United States and abroad, and has testified before the U.S. Congress more than 145 times on financial and economic issues. Allan was the co-Leader of the Committee to Establish the National Institute of Finance and a co-founder of the ACTUS Financial Research Foundation and the ACTUS Users Association.

He received his undergraduate education in economics at Columbia University (A.B.) and his graduate degrees in economics from Northwestern University (M.A., Ph.D.).