Jonathan L. Kempner President and Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan L. Kempner is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) with responsibility for general management. He serves on the MBA Board of Directors (ex officio) and on the board of its business development affiliate, Lender Technologies Corp. He also serves on the board of MERS Inc., the industry-owned registry for the transfer of mortgage rights.

Prior to assuming this role in April 2001, Kempner was President of the National Multi Housing Council for 14 years. Previously, he was Vice President and General Counsel of Oxford Development Corp. in Bethesda, Md., Assistant Director and General Counsel of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corp. in Washington and Assistant General Counsel of the Charles E. Smith Companies in Arlington, Va.

Kempner practiced law in the Washington office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman immediately following a clerkship for U.S. District Judge David W. Williams of the Central District of California. He also served as a Special Consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Capital Markets and as a Staff Assistant to the Subcommittee on Representation of Citizen Interests of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and in the office of Sen. Abraham Ribicoff.

Kempner holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan (high honors and high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa) and a law degree from Stanford University Law School, where he served on the Stanford Law Review. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous real estate publications and is on the board of directors of three nonprofit organizations: Greater DC Cares, Yachad and the Ciesla Foundation.

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