Rosemarie Hepner

Biographie : Rosemarie Hepner serves as Director of the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. For the Center, Ms. Hepner manages the housing awards program, supports the Housing Opportunity Conference, assists with research and publications, and collaborates with ULI’s other departments and District Councils on projects. Before joining ULI in 2017, she worked for two international development nonprofits, most recently as the International Capital Markets Specialist at Habitat for Humanity International. In that role, Ms. Hepner supported the operations for the MicroBuild Fund (Habitat’s housing microfinance fund), and managed the State of Housing Microfinance survey reports. Ms. Hepner holds a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Planning, where her research focused on low-income housing practices and design. Her thesis examined housing reconstruction in informal settlements post-disaster. Ms. Hepner also holds a B.A. from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.