Andy Winkler is the director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s housing and infrastructure projects. In this role, he helps manage the policy initiatives and staff of BPC’s J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy. He leads BPC’s Disaster Response Reform Task Force, a bipartisan group of emergency management and disaster recovery experts first launched in 2020. He previously directed BPC’s Housing Council, a bipartisan group of over 20 former housing experts and leaders that helped BPC in crafting consensus-driven housing policy recommendations.

Winkler first joined BPC in 2015 to staff its Executive Council on Infrastructure and Senior Health and Housing Task Force. He also assisted Michael Stegman, formerly President Obama’s top housing adviser, in his work at BPC on housing finance reform.

Prior to joining BPC, Winkler was the director of housing finance policy at the American Action Forum. He also worked at AAF as a policy analyst on housing and economic issues.

Born and raised in St. Louis, Winkler received his B.A. from the University of Missouri in Columbia.