GREGORY HAILE, J.D

Gregory Adam Haile, J.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Haile’s work focuses on the intersection of 3 key elements of American national security: economic mobility, engaging low income and marginalized communities to support our nation’s workforce needs, and AI. Haile is also the Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and is the Bank’s Audit and Operational Risk Committee Chair. Haile recently served on the U.S.- EU Talent for Growth Task Force. Co-chaired by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Secretary of State, the task force assembled 6 U.S. leaders from business, labor and education, with counterparts from the EU to build on workforce initiatives from both sides of the Atlantic, to catalyze and advance human capital in technology fields. Haile previously served as the president of one of America’s largest colleges (Broward College) with over 55,000 students. He was recognized as one of the top five community college CEOs in the nation by the American Association of Community Colleges, and led the College to a top ten ranking (from more than one thousand colleges) by the Aspen Institute at every eligible year under his tenure. His leadership garnered the largest grant and the largest gift in the College's history, and he set the national example for engaging low-income communities. Haile has 20+ years of board experience and has held 15+ chairmanships.

Haile is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Young Presidents Organization. He has also taught a self-designed course on Higher Education Law and Policy at the Harvard Summer School. Haile graduated from Columbia University’s School of Law as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the National Black Law Journal and as an Editor of the Journal of Gender and Law. He holds a B.S. from Arizona State University, Magna Cum Laude, and was recognized as the most outstanding undergraduate in his college. He has an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Nova Southeastern University.