Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal has a well-earned reputation as one of America’s most successful public sector executives and one of the boldest innovators in the health care and education sectors.

Jindal used his two terms as Governor of Louisiana to rebuild and diversify the state’s economy and financial footing in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Jindal’s agenda included top-to-bottom reformation and privatization of the state-run charity hospital and the state’s healthcare payer systems. Fiscally, Jindal reduced the state budget by 26%, reduced the state employee headcount by 30,000, and implemented the largest income tax reduction in state history. With a bipartisan consensus, Jindal implemented statewide school choice programs and moved the state from the bottom five in ethics laws to the top five, according to independent analysts.

Jindal’s dramatic rework of Louisiana’s policy structure paid measurable dividends in the form of eight credit upgrades, $60 billion in private capital investment and a ranking in the top ten in the nation for job creation and the highest ever per-capita income ranking in state history.

Despite being the nation’s youngest governor when he was elected, Jindal had been well-prepared to become the state’s CEO, with stints as the head of the state Department of Health and Hospitals, as President of the University of Louisiana System, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare – all before his thirtieth birthday.

Jindal also served as a U.S. Congressman. In the private sector, Jindal advised senior management of Fortune 500 firms as an associate at McKinsey & Co. In recent years, Jindal has served as a consultant to Morgan Stanley and on the boards of WellCare, Granicus, Cotton Holdings, and Brown University. He is currently an Operating Adviser for Ares Management and serves on the boards of Hornbeck Offshore Services and US Heart and Vascular.

He serves as Chairman of the Center for a Healthy America, as a member of eHealth’s Public Policy Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Smarter, Cleaner, Faster Infrastructure Task Force. Jindal writes op-eds for the Wall Street Journal.

Jindal graduated with an ScB from Brown University with honors in Biology and Public Policy, and received an M.Litt. in Politics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.