Dr. Christopher Herbert is Managing Director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and a  Lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. Dr. Herbert has extensive experience in research related to housing policy and urban development both in the U.S. and abroad. His research focuses on the financial, social and demographic dimensions of homeownership, the dynamics of the rental housing market, the nature and causes of racial and socioeconomic segregation, and the  implicaitons of a rapidly aging society for housing. Dr. Herbert is co-editor of A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality (2018) and Homeownership Built to Last: Balancing Access, Affordability, and Risk After the Housing Crisis (Brookings Institution Press, 2014). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Freddie Mac and a member of the Advisory Board of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging. He holds a PhD and Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a BA in History from Dartmouth College.