Bio
Sairah Burki is Managing Director, Regulatory Affairs at CREFC, focusing on regulatory issues with a significant impact on the commercial and multifamily real estate finance industry.
Prior to joining CREFC, Sairah was a Managing Director and Head of Policy at the Structured Finance Association (SFA). Sairah built SFA’s asset-backed policy function, responding to new policy initiatives and regulatory requirements across a wide range of topics in the structured finance industry.
Before joining SFA, Sairah was a Director on Capital One’s consumer securitization team. During the financial crisis, as Director of Treasury Policy, Sairah pivoted from a securitization role to one focused on developing Capital One’s response to new regulation.
Sairah graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a BA in Public Policy and received her MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.