Camille M. Busette, Ph.D., is the Interim Vice President of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is also the Director of the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative, focusing on issues of equity, racial justice and economic mobility for low-income communities and communities of color.
Prior to joining Brookings, Busette was an executive at the World Bank where she led the World Bank’s financial inclusion innovation arm. She was the inaugural CEO of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Financial Education, where she was a member of the Policy and Executive Management teams. Busette has held executive positions at PayPal, Intuit, and NextCard and is a Public Governor of FINRA, the self-regulatory agency for the broker-dealer industry. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and is former Ford Foundation Post-doctoral fellow.