Sarah Rosen Wartell

Sarah Rosen Wartell
Education	Princeton University, A.B. Yale University, J.D.
Occupation	President, the Urban Institute

Sarah Rosen Wartell is a public policy executive and housing markets expert who serves as president of the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan social and economic policy research institute in Washington D.C.

Wartell attended Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (A.B. degree with honors in urban affairs) and Yale Law School (J.D.).

Wartell became the third president of the Urban Institute In February 2012, succeeding former president Robert D. Reischauer.

Wartell co-founded the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive public policy and research organization. She served as its first chief operating officer and general counsel and later, as executive vice president. Her work focused on the economy and housing markets, and she directed the Mortgage Finance Working Group and "Doing What Works" government performance program.

Wartell was President Bill Clinton's deputy assistant for economic policy and the deputy director of his National Economic Council. In the White House from 1998 to 2000, she led over a dozen interagency working groups, negotiated legislation, and managed administration policymaking in housing and community development, financial markets and banking, insurance, consumer protection, pensions, tort reform, and other areas.

From 1993 to 1998, Wartell was a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Federal Housing Administration in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, advising the federal housing commissioner on housing finance, mortgage markets, and consumer protection.

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