Faculty Profile

Cliff Rossi Tyser Teaching Fellow Ph.D., Cornell University 4465 Van Munching Hall Phone: 301-405-8717 E-mail: crossi@rhsmith.umd.edu

Cliff Rossi is joining the business school as a Tyser Teaching Fellow and Managing Director of the Center on Financial Policy and Corporate Governance.  Cliff has nearly 25 years experience in banking and government, having held senior executive roles in risk management at several of the largest financial services companies. 

His most recent position was Chief Risk Officer for Consumer Lending at Citigroup where he was intimately involved in TARP funding and stress tests performed on Citi.  Cliff also helped start a statistical arbitrage unit at Citi and helped integrate market and credit risk analytics across Citi's mortgage portfolios. While there he was responsible for overseeing a $200B global mortgage portfolio with 700 employees under his direction.  He  also served as Chief Credit Officer at Washington Mutual (WaMu) and as Chief Risk Officer at Countrywide Bank. 

Previous to these assignments, Cliff held senior positions at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and worked for a number of years at the Treasury Department and Office of Thrift Supervision working on key policy issues affecting depositories.  Cliff also was an adjunct professor in the Finance Department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business for 8 years and has a number of publications on banking industry topics.  He holds a PhD in financial economics from Cornell University.