Alexei Alexandrov is a Ph.D. economist, who worked on mortgages and housing as a senior economist and the artificial intelligence fellow at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and as the chief economist at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and worked on other topics at tech firms and academia. Alexei writes about mortgages and housing for various outlets (including the Urban Institute, New America, and OpenBanker), and is developing data-driven and budget-concsious homelessness interventions in Allegheny County (Pennsylvania).