Valerie White, senior director, is the analytical manager and team leader for the U.S. Public Finance Ratings group, focusing on tax-exempt housing. She manages a team of credit professionals providing ratings and credit analysis on tax-exempt housing and affordable real estate.

Valerie is responsible for maintaining analytical quality, advancing ratings criteria development for affordable housing, publishing industry commentaries, and market outreach. She also is the primary analyst for a number of state housing finance agencies. Previously, Valerie was the business sector leader for affordable multifamily housing and real estate ratings.

Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, Valerie was employed with the City of New York for 14 years, the last eight years of which were spent with the New York City Housing Authority as Deputy Director of Asset Management and Private Market Operations. In that role, she managed the design, development, and implementation of three multimillion-dollar urban revitalization projects.

Valerie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Fordham University, a Masters of Human Resources from Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, and a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University, where she was managing editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal. Valerie holds a Certificate in Organization Development from The New School University’s Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions.

Valerie is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and Municipal Analysts Group of New York. She is listed in the 2009 inaugural edition of Who’s Who in Black New York City and was featured as one of the “25 Influential Black Women in Business” in The Network Journal. Valerie has published numerous articles, has been quoted in several major publications, and is frequently called upon to speak on affordable housing. She was one of the 25 U.S. delegates chosen to speak at the 2006 Tri-Country Housing Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was featured on a special U.S.-focused panel at the 2010 International Social Housing Summit in Hague, The Netherlands.