Gregory Haile | Team Profile

Gregory Haile serves as a Senior Advisor at the Project on Workforce at Harvard. His research focuses on ensuring that all workforce talent is developed to ensure U.S. national competitiveness and security.  As a leader, he is dedicated to ensuring opportunities for  internationally trained professionals to satisfy American labor market needs, the impact of artificial intelligence on talent supply and demand, place-based workforce strategies, and the global competition for talent.

Haile is Chief Executive Officer of Upwardly Global, the nation’s leading workforce development nonprofit organization dedicated to helping immigrants with professional credentials restart their careers in the United States. He concurrently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, having previously chaired the Bank’s Audit and Risk Committee. He is also a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School, an extension of his work as a Senior Fellow at the M-RCBG, where his research explored the intersection of economic mobility, workforce readiness, and artificial intelligence as critical elements of U.S. national security. He was also a Senior Fellow for Achieving the Dream, and led the ATD AI for All Task Force that produced a national framework for leveraging AI to drive community college success: Creating the AI Community College.   

In 2024, he completed service as a member of 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. Haile was one of six Americans  selected to lead the exchange of best practices for building an inclusive AI economy with counterparts from the EU.

Previously, Haile served as President of Broward College, one of the largest colleges in the United States with more than 55,000 students. During his tenure, he was recognized by the American Association of Community Colleges as one of the top five community college CEOs in the nation, and led the college to a top ten ranking by the Aspen Institute in every year it was eligible. 

Haile has also led in the private sector, as a partner at Strategos Group, where he founded the firm’s Higher Education and Workforce Advisory Practice, and earlier in his career as a securities/corporate litigator.

Haile has served in more than 40 board or committee leadership roles and has held 10 board chairmanships. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Young Presidents’ Organization. He holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the National Black Law Journal, and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Nova Southeastern University and is a Fellow of the Vanderbilt University Higher Education Management Institute.

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