Alex J. Pollock
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago

Alex J. Pollock has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, a $60 billion wholesale bank, since 1991. He is the architect of the innovative Mortgage Partnership Finance (MPF) Program, which has grown to over $35 billion in assets since its introduction in 1997. Mr. Pollock is a Past President of the Interntaional Union for Housing Finance and the Bankers' Club of Chicago; a life member of the Center for Financial Institutions and Markets of Northwestern University; a Director of the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and the Great Books Foundation; and a Trustee of the Illinois Council on Economic Education. He has received the American Enterprise Award from the Praire Institute and the Rauen Legislative Award from the Illinois League of Financial Institutions for the development of the MPF Program. Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Federal Savings in St. Louis; a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; President of Marine Bank, N.A. in Milwaukee; and served at Continental Illinois National Bank in incresasing responsibilites in Belgium, Germany and Chicago, becoming a Senior Vice President in 1982. THe author of numerous articles on banking, financial systems, and management, he is an honors graduate of WIlliam College and holds Master's degrees from the University of Chicago in Philosophy and Princeton University in International Relations.