Kevin G. Chavers, managing director, is a member of the Global Fixed Income Securitized Asset Investment Team. He was formerly a member of the Global Public Policy Group and began his career at BlackRock as a member of the Financial Markets Advisory Group within BlackRock Solutions. Kevin has extensive experience in the mortgage capital markets and housing finance policy in both the public and private sectors. He is a member of BlackRock’s Government Relations Steering Committee. 

He also co-chairs the Black Professionals Network at BlackRock. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2011, Kevin  was a managing director at Morgan Stanley, where he served as a senior relationship manager with coverage responsibilities for the mortgage related Government Sponsored Enterprises and other clients. He previously headed the global mortgage operating businesses of Morgan Stanley and led their strategic repositioning. He also led strategy, execution and banking for the mortgage principal finance team within the Securitized Products Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he was a vice president in the Mortgage Securities Department at Goldman Sachs & Co. Kevin served as the president of Ginnie Mae in the Clinton Administration. He also formerly served as majority staff counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. He began his career with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed Hadley and McCloy in New York.

Kevin is a graduate of Harvard Law School and earned a bachelor’s in City Planning from the University Of Virginia School Of Architecture.