Camille busette biography

Camille M. Busette is the vice president and director of Governance Studies....

Camille M. Busette is the vice president and director of Governance Studies.

Biography.

  • Biography.
  • I'm Camille Busette, I'm a senior fellow in Governance Studies and I head up the new Race, Place, and Economic Mobility initiative here at Brookings.
  • Camille M. Busette is the vice president and director of Governance Studies.
  • Camille M. Busette, Ph.D., is the interim vice president and director of Governance Studies.
  • Camille Busette, Public Governor, Interim Vice President, Governance Studies and Director of Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative, Brookings Institution.
  • She has served as senior fellow in Governance Studies with affiliated appointments in Economic Studies and Metropolitan Policy. She is also director of the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative, a Brookings cross-program initiative focused on issues of equity, racial justice and economic mobility for low-income communities and communities of color.

    At Brookings, her work has focused on systemic racism, the economic advancement of Black and Native American boys, the importance of social relationships to economic mobility, and equity in healthcare and in local and state government policy priorities and builds on her work for low-income populations at EARN (now SaverLife) and the Center for American Progress.

    Prior to joining Brookings, Busette was an executive at the World Bank where she led the World Bank’s financial inclusion innovation arm, working globally with technology and financial service exec