Shaun Donovan

Secretary of Housing & Urban Development

Status: Named; needs to be formally nominated and confirmed by Senate

About Shaun Donovan

With degrees in architecture and public service from Harvard, Shaun Donovan has been commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, where he managed a $7.5 billion plan with a goal of putting a half-million New Yorkers in affordable housing and kept foreclosures to a minimum in the city's low- and moderate-income home ownership plan, with just five out of 17,000 participating homes.

During the Clinton administration, Mr. Donovan was deputy assistant secretary for multifamily housing at HUD, serving as the government's chief administrator for managing privately owned, government-subsidized housing. He was acting commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration during the transition from Clinton to President George W. Bush and, after that, worked at Prudential Mortgage Capital Company.