Leonard Kiefer
Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac
Vienna, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonard Kiefer is the Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac with 13 years of experience translating complex macroeconomic and housing data into actionable forecasts and policy-relevant analysis. He leads development of the firm’s economic outlook—covering house prices, mortgage originations, interest rates and home sales—while advising internal business units and briefing external stakeholders. Trained as a Ph.D. economist, he combines advanced time-series and predictive modeling skills (SAS, Matlab, econometrics) with hands-on work in prepayment, default and model validation. He also maintains an academic footprint through research and past teaching in real estate and econometrics, which sharpens his ability to explain technical results to varied audiences. Notably, he has a track record of embedding stochastic scenario analysis and counterfactuals into business planning, bridging rigorous modeling with practical decision support.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics Philosophy, BA Economics Philosophy at University of KentuckyPh.D. Economics, Ph.D. Economics at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (8)
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animation5
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data-visualization3
grammar3
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time-series1
dimension-reduction1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lenkiefer/lenkiefer.github.com
Sep 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:229 commits, 1 PR, 640 pushes in 4 years 9 months
lenkiefer/test1lenkiefer.github.io
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 2 years 1 month
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