Aubrey Fox

Aubrey Fox is the Executive Director of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, the City’s main pretrial services agency working under contract with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. In this role he oversees the major operations and future development of CJA, which carries the mission of reducing the use of pretrial detention. Since joining CJA in 2017 Aubrey has overseen a major redevelopment of the city's pretrial Release Assessment, and the expansion of the organization into new avenues of pretrial justice reform.

Previously, Aubrey has held a number of senior-level positions at the Center for Court Innovation, including serving as the founding Project Director of Bronx Community Solutions, an alternative sentencing program. Aubrey also launched the Center's U.K. office, the Centre for Justice Innovation, in London. Most recently, Aubrey spent two years as the Executive Director of the Institute for Economics and Peace-USA, an international think tank to measure peace, its causes and economic consequences.

He graduated with a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, served as a VISTA Volunteer in San Antonio, Texas, was a Warren Weaver Fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation and a member of Coro’s Leadership New York program. Aubrey is also the co-author, with Greg Berman, of Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure, published by the Urban Institute Press.