Heather Higginbottom is a senior leader with over 25 years of experience across the White House, Cabinet agencies, Capitol Hill, and a Fortune 100 financial institution. Most recently, she served as head of Research, Policy and Insights at JPMorgan Chase, where she oversaw the JPMorgan Chase Institute and Policy Center, championing evidence-based policy to advance inclusive economic opportunity through distinctive research and cross-sector engagement.

Before joining JPMorgan Chase, Higginbottom was chief operating officer of CARE USA, a $650 million international nongovernmental organization providing humanitarian and development assistance in over 90 countries and reaching 80 million people a year.

Higginbottom served as deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2013 to 2017. In the White House, she served as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and as deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council. She has also held senior positions on Capitol Hill and led policy development in two presidential campaigns.

Higginbottom holds a BA in political science from the University of Rochester and a master's degree in public policy from the George Washington University. In addition to her board position at the Urban Institute, she serves as a trustee of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.