Drs. Marja Hoek-Smit, Founder and recently retired Director, International Housing Finance Program, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor in the Real Estate Department of the Wharton School. She continues to teach executive education programs in housing finance and housing market analysis and is a core teacher in the Housing Finance Course for Sub-Saharan Africa at Cape Town University, South Africa.
Marja is a frequent advisor to governments and private- and non-profit sector clients in Emerging Market and Developing Economies in the field of housing and housing finance policy, institutional and product development. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Habitat for Humanity Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Housing.
Marja is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Housing Finance Information Network—HOFINET—a global web portal that consolidates international housing finance information and statistical data for public use.