AGA Fraud 2025

Rae Oliver Davis
Former Inspector General
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development


The Honorable Rae Oliver Davis is a distinguished former government official with over two decades of experience in public service, oversight, and strategic leadership. She served as the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 2019 to 2025, leading a team of more than 540 oversight professionals. During her tenure, she collaborated with HUD’s Chief Financial Officer, resulting in the department receiving its first unqualified audit opinion since 2012. Davis also influenced HUD leadership to address over 67% of open Inspector General recommendations that tackled critical management challenges in information technology, human capital, and housing conditions. Furthermore, she led efforts to provide innovative fraud risk management during the pandemic, addressing billions of dollars in pandemic relief. Under her leadership, significant settlements were achieved in sexual harassment cases involving housing, totaling $5.6 million in damages for 104 victims, including the largest settlements of their kind in the history of the Department of Justice. Additionally, Davis partnered with the Department of Justice to file the largest number of federal bribery charges in a single day in DOJ history, charging 70 former and current employees of the New York City Housing Authority with bribery and extortion. She also chaired the Professional Development Committee for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) and served as a member of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC). Before her tenure at HUD, Ms. Oliver Davis served as the Chief Investigative Counsel at the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP). She also practiced as an attorney at the United States Postal Service Office of the Inspector General.

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