Sameera Fazili is an economic policy expert with over 20 years of experience in policy development, program execution, and crisis management across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She most recently served as a deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of the White House’s National Economic Council in the Biden-Harris administration. In that role, she led policy development on industrial policy, supply chain resilience, and regional economic development and the administration’s response to numerous supply chain crises. She is currently a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where she researches the intersection of industrial policy and place-based economic strategies, as well as lessons learned from her involvement in handling supply chain crises for the Biden administration.

Fazili has served in domestic and international economic policymaking roles in the Obama-Biden White House, the Treasury Department, and the Federal Reserve System. Her expertise spans multiple industries, including financial services, manufacturing, clean energy, housing, transportation, and logistics. Prior to the Biden-Harris administration, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta as the director of engagement for community economic development, where she built a new research and action unit in the research department focused on evidence-based policies to support inclusive growth. In the Obama-Biden administration, at the Treasury Department she served as a senior advisor and chief of staff to the undersecretary for international affairs and as a senior policy advisor in the Domestic Finance Department, and in the White House she served as a senior policy advisor at the National Economic Council. Her academic work includes roles at the Urban Institute and Yale Law School, where she taught development finance and social enterprise. Early in her career she worked at Shorebank, the nation’s first community development bank.

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