Mike Eggleston
Community Development Researcher
Mike Eggleston is a Community Development Researcher with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He works to advance understanding around the distribution and accessibility of financial capital for small business development, affordable housing, nonprofit capacity-building, and other efforts focused on promoting economic resiliency and mobility among underserved households and communities.
Eggleston has produced research and developed data tools highlighting the flow of capital into communities and organizations, including the role of mission lenders such as community development financial institutions.
His work has been featured in publications such as American Banker, Next City, the St. Louis Business Journal and Louisville Business First. Eggleston is a recipient of the 2021 Leadership Award from the Incarnate Word Foundation and was selected for the 2021-22 class of Leadership St. Louis. He currently serves on the board of directors at Habitat for Humanity St. Louis.
Eggleston received a bachelor’s degree in business from Indiana University-Bloomington and a master’s degree in public policy administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.