Gregory Haile, J.D.

Bio

Gregory A. Haile, is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Mr. Haile’s work focuses on the intersection of three key elements of American national security: economic mobility, engaging low-income and marginalized communities to support our nation’s workforce needs, and AI.

Mr. Haile previously served as the president of Broward College in Broward County, Florida, from July 2018 to September 2023. Broward College is one of America’s largest colleges with more than 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 he led the college to a top ten ranking (from more than 1,000 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. Mr. Haile has more than 20 years of board experience and has held more than 15 chairmanships.

Mr. Haile serves as deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and chairs the Bank’s Audit and Operational Risk Committee. He recently served on the US-EU Talent for Growth Task Force. Cochaired by the US Secretary of Commerce and the US Secretary of State, the task force assembled six US leaders from business, labor, and education with counterparts from the EU to build on workforce initiatives from both sides of the Atlantic, with the goal of catalyzing and advancing human capital in technology fields.

Mr. Haile serves on the boards of Achieving the Dream, BBX Capital, the Everglades Foundation, and Poetry in America. He 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.

Mr. 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.