Soula Proxenos
Managing Director, International Housing Finance Services
Fannie Mae

Soula Proxenos is Director of International Housing Financial Services at Fannie Mae's corporate headquarters in Washington, DC. She manages the international advisory services used by over 30 countries around the globe. IHFS offers advisory services to institutions and governments to identify opportunities for strengthening primary mortgage markets, help assess market readiness for secondary marketing conduits, and implementation of housing finance operations.

Before joining Fannie Mae in 1999, she was Director at the Council on Financial Competition at the Corporate Executive Board, Washington, DC, and was responsible for syndicated research and member education. Her book on branch banking strategies, Next Generation Network Management, was published by the CEB in 1999.

Ms. Proxenos has extensive experience in international finance. She has managed international marketing and sales teams, developed strategic alliances, and opened new markets for the international divisions of South African and European financial services companies.

Ms. Proxenos received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and an M.B.A. from the University of Stellenbosch, also in South Africa.