Roger L. Anderson joined the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority as Executive Director in October 2002. He has overall responsibility for the operations of the Authority, which provides financing for capital projects to all colleges and universities in the state. He is a member of the Committee on Governmental Debt Management of the Government Finance Officers Association.

Mr. Anderson served as Deputy Assistant Secretary (Federal Finance) in the U.S. Treasury Department from 1996 to 1999. At Treasury, he managed the annual issuance of $2 trillion federal debt, designed and implemented TIPS and redesigned both SLGS and Savings Bonds.

Also while at Treasury, he had regulatory oversight responsibility for the government securities market; chaired the Steering Committee of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets; served on the Advanced Counterfeiting Deterrence Steering Committee; and managed oversight of Sallie Mae. In other public positions, Mr. Anderson was Deputy Comptroller for Finance of The City of New York, and served as a clerk to the chief judge of the United States Court of Claims.

Mr. Anderson’s private sector experience includes serving as Executive Vice President at Elmrock Capital, Inc., and as an attorney. A magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences with an AB in History, Mr. Anderson received his law degree cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School.