Executive-in-Residence Profile

William A. Longbrake Executive-in-Residence Ph.D., University of Maryland 4460 Van Munching Hall Phone: 301-405-9622 E-mail: Wlongbrake@rhsmith.umd.edu

Bill Longbrake has extensive experience in finance, macroeconomics and monetary policy, risk management, housing, public policy and academia, government, serving both the public and private sectors.

Beginning in June 2009, he became an Executive in Residence at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland working on a variety of business, policy, and governance issues with faculty, students, business leaders, government policymakers, and executives of not-for-profit organizations. He also serves on the boards of directors of First Financial Northwest, a community bank located in Renton, Washington; the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle; and the Washington Financial League.

Longbrake is a member of several committees of the American Bankers Association, including those for government relations, governance and mortgage markets. He serves on the boards of trustees of Auburn Theological Seminary; the College of Wooster; and is president of the Intiman Theatre Foundation. He is president and chairman of the board of trustees of Lift Up Africa, a charitable organization that finances humanitarian and economic development initiatives on the continent of Africa, and is president and chairman of the board of trustees of the Longbrake Family Foundation.

In the academic sector, Longbrake has published extensively and has taught courses in business administration and finance at the University of Maryland and Seattle University. In 2007, he received the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award from the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Longbrake is active in numerous academic, business, and community service organizations, particularly those involving issues surrounding affordable housing and education. He chairs the Washington State Citizens Commission for Review of Tax Preferences. He is a member of the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors for Washington State, a member of the University of Washington Business School Advisory Board and a member of the Robert H. Smith School of Business Board of Visitors. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Financial Services Roundtable’s Housing Policy Council.