Margaret Anadu

Margaret Anadu is an investor and business leader known for building scaled, high-performing investment platforms and helping define affordable and workforce housing as an institutional asset class. She has invested over $10 billion across hundreds of transactions throughout the United States, delivering strong economic returns while expanding access to capital across underserved communities and historically undercapitalized segments of the capital markets. She has been named one of the most influential figures in U.S. commercial real estate by Commercial Observer and recognized on 40 Under 40 lists by Fortune, Black Enterprise, and Crain’s.

Margaret spent nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs, where she was a Partner and served as Global Head of Sustainability and Impact for Asset Management and head of the Urban Investment Group, the firm’s primary impact investing business. Under her leadership, the platform invested over $2 billion annually across affordable and workforce housing, community facilities, education, green infrastructure, small businesses, and other sectors.

Most recently, Margaret co-founded and built the real estate investment platform at The Vistria Group, creating one of the largest institutional affordable housing platforms in the United States.

Margaret currently serves as Chair of the Board of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and is a member of the boards of the Mellon Foundation, NewYork-Presbyterian, the Urban Institute, and Enterprise Community Partners. She holds a B.A. from Harvard College and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two children.