Dr. Xavier Briggs

The Brookings Institution

Xavier (Xav) de Souza Briggs is a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and a visiting fellow at the SNF Agora Institute on democracy at Johns Hopkins University. Xav is an expert on economic opportunity and inclusive growth, racial equity and pluralism, housing, urban and regional development, and democratic governance in the U.S. and abroad. An award-winning educator and researcher, he is also an experienced manager in philanthropy and government, having served as associate director of the White House Office of Management & Budget under President Obama and later as Vice President of the Ford Foundation.