Gregory Haile, J.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Haile extends his expertise at the intersection of economic mobility, our nation’s workforce needs, generative AI, and our nation’s economy. He also serves as the Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. As a former college president, he is the first educator to serve as Deputy Chair of the Atlanta Fed in approximately 70 years. He is also 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 brought together 6 American leaders from business, labor, and education to collaborate with counterparts from the European Union to build on existing initiatives from both sides of the Atlantic and to exchange best practices, serving as a catalyst for advancing human capital. He is also on the boards of Achieving the Dream, BBX Capital, the Everglades Foundation, and Poetry in America.

As alluded to, Haile recently served as the seventh president of Broward College, with nearly 60,000 students, 4500 employees, more than 300 acres of land, and nearly 3 million square feet of office and classroom space under his leadership. While President, 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 1000 colleges) by the Aspen Institute every eligible year under his tenure. His leadership garnered the largest grant and the largest gift in Broward College's history. 

A recipient of more than 50 awards, including being named one of the “Seven Most Fascinating People of South Florida,” the U.S. flag has twice been raised above Florida’s State Capitol building in honor of Haile and his work. 

Other awards include the 2024 Courage and Confidence Award (Bow Tie Kids); 2023 College Access Champion Award - Outstanding Individual (Nyah Project); 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Award (South Florida Business and Wealth Magazine); 2022 Jason Jenkins First But Not the Last Man-Kind Award - Inaugural Winner (YWCA of South Florida); 2022 Men Who Lead (International Career and Business Alliance); 2021 Helpline Hero (211 Broward);  2021 Ultimate CEO (South Florida Business Journal); 2020 Chair’s Award (Florida Chamber of Commerce); 2019 Champions of Children Award (HANDY: Helping Abused and Neglected Disadvantaged Youth);  2019 Community Pioneer Award - Inaugural Winner (Stranahan House);  2019 Tripp Scott Diversity Champion Award (Urban League of Broward County); 2018 Profiles in Leadership Award (Leadership Broward)

Haile is a Director of BBX Capital (OTCQX:BBXIA), a South Florida diversified holding company. He also is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Inc (Alpha Rho Boule), an invitation-only national fraternal organization for Black American men of recognized achievement in their fields, are of unquestionable character, and whose personality blends in harmoniously with other individuals.

Haile has more than 20+ years of nonprofit board experience and chaired 15+ boards, including Free the Slaves, Poetry in America, the Greater Ft. Lauderdale Alliance, and Promise of Progress. He currently sits on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Everglades Foundation, Achieving the Dream, and Poetry in America. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and YPO.  

Haile graduated from the Columbia University School of Law as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University. He is also a fellow of Vanderbilt University's Higher Education Management Institute. In 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Nova Southeastern University. He has routinely taught a self-designed course on higher education law and policy at the Harvard Summer School.