Jacob Leibenluft

Jacob Leibenluft is a visiting fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Previously, he was the executive associate director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Biden administration, responsible for coordinating day-to-day budget policy work at the agency.

He also served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a counselor to Secretary Janet Yellen and as chief recovery officer, where he led Treasury's efforts to disburse more than $400 billion in American Rescue Plan and other COVID-19 relief funds.

For this work, he received the Alexander Hamilton Award, Treasury's highest honor. 

In the Obama White House, Leibenluft served in several roles at the National Economic Council, including deputy director of the council and deputy assistant to the president.

Between the Obama and Biden administrations, he had several roles at think tanks, including executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress, senior advisor at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and research fellow at the New York University School of Law's Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance.

Leibenluft earned his B.A. in economics and history from Yale University.