DR. MICHAEL A. STEGMAN

Michael A. Stegman is currently the Director of Policy for the Program on Human and community development. He serves as the Foundation's lead observer of domestic policy issues, working to translate policy trends and position program strategies in affordable housing, community change, mental health, juvenile justice, education, and urban and regional policy within the larger context of local, state and national policy developments. 

Dr. Stegman was previously the Duncan MacRae¹09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy and Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chairman of the Department of Public Policy, and Director of the Center for Community Capitalism in the Kenan-Flagler Business School, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated him and the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment to be Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research (PD&R) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He held that position until June 30, 1997. He also served as Acting Chief of Staff at HUD from November 1996 through April 1997.

He is a Fellow of the Urban Land Institute, a member of Freddie Mac¹s Affordable Housing Advisory Council, serves on several national boards of directors, including the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City directed by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter; One Economy Corporation, a newly chartered non-profit dedicated to the elimination of the digital divide; and the national advisory board of The Brooking Institution¹s Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. He is past Vice President of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and member of APPAM¹s Policy Council and Executive Committee, and has served as consultant to HUD, the Treasury Department, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI), the U.S. General Accounting Office, and Lehman Brothers.

In 1995, he received both the Lambda Alpha International Washington Chapter Distinguished Educator Award, and the Lambda Alpha International Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator Award. In its June 14, 1997 issue, the National Journal named him one of Washington¹s 100 most influential decision makers.

He has written extensively on housing and community development policy and financial services for the poor. At HUD, he was founding editor of Cityscape, an important new journal of urban policy research. His most recent books include Savings and the Poor: The Hidden Benefits of Electronic Banking, (Brookings Institution Press, 1999; State and Local Affordable Housing Programs: A Rich Tapestry (The Urban Land Institute, 1999) and More Housing More Fairly, Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Affordable Housing (1991.)