1. Shaun Lawrence Sarda Donovan was born on January 24,1966 and is an American government official and housing specialist who served as the 15th United States secretary of housing and urban development from 2009 to 2014, and Director of the US Office of Management and Budget from 2014 to 2017.
Shaun Donovan was born in Panama of mixed Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish parentage.
Michael Shaun Donovan's father was Irish and his mother was Jewish.
Shaun Donovan then worked on private sector initiatives to finance affordable housing, and researched and wrote about the preservation of federally assisted housing as a visiting scholar at New York University.
Shaun Donovan worked for Prudential Mortgage Capital, from 2002 to 2004, as a managing director of FHA lending and affordable housing investments.
Shaun Donovan was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development from 2004 to 2009 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Shaun Donovan was credited with creating the department's Marketplace Plan to build and preserve over 160,000 affordable homes, which was the largest city-sponsored affordable housing plan in US history.
Shaun Donovan was confirmed as US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by the US Senate through unanimous consent on January 22,2009, and sworn in on January 26.
For President Obama's State of the Union address in 2010, Shaun Donovan served as the designated survivor.
On May 22,2014, President Obama nominated Shaun Donovan to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Shaun Donovan was ceremonially sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden on August 5,2014.
On February 3,2020, Shaun Donovan announced his candidacy for Mayor of New York City in the Democratic primary in 2021.
Shaun Donovan committed a notable gaffe when, during an interview with the New York Times, he estimated the median sale price of a home in Brooklyn to be "around $100,000," when it was actually $900,000.
Shaun Donovan later emailed the New York Times to explain that he thought the question referred to the median assessed value of Brooklyn homes, not the sale price.
Shaun Donovan is married to Elizabeth "Liza" Eastman Gilbert, a landscape designer, and they have two sons.