Biography:
Patrick Oakford is a senior fellow at EPI. He has spent his career working in government and the nonprofit sector focused on labor and economic policy. Most recently, he served in the Biden-Harris administration as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor, where he helped manage the department’s regulatory agenda and forward-looking policy development, including on issues related to AI. Previously, Patrick was a policy advisor in the Department’s Office of the Chief Economist during the Obama-Biden administration, senior policy advisor in the Executive Chamber of the Governor of New York, and conducted research at the Center for American Progress and with the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, among other organizations.
Education:
M.Sc., Migration Studies, University of Oxford
B.S., Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University