Neal Wolin is a vice chairman of Brunswick Group. He advises clients across industries on significant financial, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, and public affairs issues. He served as CEO of the firm from February 2018 through July 2024.

Wolin has spent his entire professional career at the intersection of public policy, business, law, and communications. He previously served as deputy secretary of the US Treasury from May 2009 until September 2013 and acting secretary of the Treasury in January and February 2013. As deputy secretary, Wolin served as the Treasury Department’s chief operating officer and supervised all Treasury bureaus and domestic and international policy offices as well as its management, legal, public affairs, and congressional affairs functions. He was a key architect of the Obama administration’s financial reform plan and played a critical role on international economic matters.

Before the Treasury, Wolin was president and chief operating officer of the property and casualty insurance companies of The Hartford Financial Services Group, a $20 billion Fortune 200 company. He previously oversaw the company’s legal, government affairs, communications, marketing, and tax functions.

His government experience also includes time as deputy assistant and deputy counsel to the president for economic policy in the Obama administration and as general counsel of the US Treasury and member of the National Security Council staff at the White House in the Clinton administration.

In addition to his board position at the Urban Institute, Wolin is a member of the board of trustees of Yale University and a board member of the Partnership for Public Service, Results for America, and the Atlantic Council. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Wolin graduated from Yale with a BA in history and holds an MS in development economics from the University of Oxford and a JD from Yale Law School.