New York City Mayor appoints a Nigerian, as new Chairman of the City Housing Authority

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The Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, appointed Ms Shola Olatoye, a Nigerian, as the new Chairman of the New York City Housing Authority. She has her bachelor’s degree in history with honours from Wesleyan University and her Master of Public Administration from New York University.  Prior to her appointment, Olatoye was the Vice President and market leader for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. and before that, she was the deputy director and director of relationship management, leading production efforts and helping to develop new products and solutions, originating new business and overseeing relationship management for Enterprise’s many partners in New York. 

Before joining Enterprise in 2009, Olatoye was a vice president and senior community development manager with HSBC Bank USA where she managed the bank’s Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) programme of lending, investment and service in low-and moderate-income communities in Washington D.C., and South Florida. She served as the issues director for New York City public advocate for former Democratic mayoral nominee, Mark Green and spent five years in New York as an advocate and policy analyst for urban school finance reform.