Mindy Turbov founded the Chicago based community development consulting firm of Turbov Associates in 1997, after a twenty year career in the community development field. The firm specializes in providing community development consulting, policy and strategic planning, and program development services to public, private and not-for-profit clients.

Throughout her career, Ms. Turbov has worked to bring the public, private and non profit sectors together to tackle the difficult issues facing urban neighborhoods, ranging from redeveloping the riot-torn Hough neighborhood in Cleveland, organizing the Cleveland Housing Network, creating the New Homes for Chicago Program and developing and implementing the mixed finance HOPE VI program while at HUD in the mid 1990s. In that capacity, with the assistance of many colleagues at HUD, she helped set a new course for the direction of Public Housing in this country. Ms. Turbov negotiated the first privately developed public housing redevelopment projects, establishing the policies and standards for the program, as well as developing the regulations to govern the program.

Ms. Turbov has an unusual resume having been on virtually on all sides of public/ private partnerships at some point in her career -- local government, federal government, lending, private development and non-profit development. Her former positions include:

• Special Assistant to HUD Secretary Cisneros and FHA Commissioner Retsinas
• Director, Public Housing Investments Program, HUD
• Special Assistant to Chairman Federal Housing Finance Board
• Deputy Commissioner for Development City of Chicago Department of Housing
• Vice President, McCormack Baron & Associates
• Senior Associate, Shorebank Advisory Service
• Director, Cleveland Housing Network
• City Planner, City of Cleveland

Ms. Turbov was appointed by the Clinton Administration to Chair the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago in from 1998-1999 and has since served a Vice Chair and is currently a member. She is on the Board of the McAuley Institute and the National Housing Conference. She is a member of the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council’s Resource Board. She was appointed by President Clinton to the Interagency Council on Women and for two years has served on the White House Fellowship Chicago Regional Selection Panel.

Ms. Turbov holds a Masters degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelors degree in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois.