Xavier de Souza Briggs

Xavier (Xav) de Souza Briggs is a senior fellow at Brookings Metro, where he works on aligning public and private action, including business and philanthropy, for an inclusive and climate-smart recovery. Briggs also serves as a senior adviser at Freedman Consulting, LLC. Dr. Briggs’ career includes high-level experience in philanthropy, academia, and government, including service as a program associate director (“pad”) in the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Obama administration. In that role, he oversaw a wide array of policy, budget, and management issues for roughly half the cabinet agencies of the federal government and many independent agencies.