Tevi Troy

Dr. Troy currently serves as Vice President of Public Policy for Juul Labs. He brings extensive senior level government and industry experience having served the White House in several high-level positions, including Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as Deputy Assistant and then Acting Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. As Deputy Secretary of HHS, Dr. Troy oversaw the largest civilian department in the federal government, with a budget of $716 billion and over 67,000 employees. From 2014 to 2018, Dr. Troy was the founder and CEO of the American Health Policy Institute. He also served as a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute, where he remains an Adjunct Fellow, and was a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Troy served as the Policy Director for Senator John Ashcroft. From 1996 to 1998, Troy was Senior Domestic Policy Adviser and later Domestic Policy Director for the House Policy Committee, chaired by Congressman Christopher Cox.

Dr. Troy's other affiliations include: contributing editor for Washingtonian magazine; member of the publication committee of National Affairs; member of the Board of Fellows of the Jewish Policy Center; member of the Board of Directors of R Street; a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute; and a member of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel examining the United States’ readiness to address bioterrorism and naturally occurring outbreaks. In 2012, he was a Special Policy Adviser to the Mitt Romney presidential campaign and served as Director of Domestic Policy for the nascent Romney transition. Dr. Troy has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and an M.A and Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin.