Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Taubman Center

Politics & Policy Lunch: Quentin Palfrey, Director of Federal Funds & Infrastructure

Monday, February 26, 2024

12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Leung Conference Room (110), Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street, Providence RI

Join Professor Wendy Schiller, Brown faculty, guest speakers, and the Taubman Center for American Politics & Policy for lunchtime discussions on American politics.

Our guest at this edition of our Politics & Policy Lunch series is Quentin Palfrey. Palfrey is the Director of Federal Funds & Infrastucture for the Healye Driscoll Administration in the state of Massachusetts. We will be discussing his role and how the investments of the Biden-Harris Administration is implemented by state government. 

Open to all Brown Students.

Politics and Policy Lunches

Quentin Palfrey served as a senior political appointee in the Administrations of President Obama and President Biden. Under President Obama, he was Senior Advisor for Jobs & Competitiveness in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, as well as Deputy General Counsel for Strategic Initiatives in the US Department of Commerce. On Day One of the Biden Administration, Palfrey served as Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, managing a team of several hundred lawyers in a department with over 50,000 employees. 

Palfrey also has extensive experience in Massachusetts state government. He was the first Chief of the Health Care Division in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office during the time when Massachusetts was implementing its landmark health reform law. Palfrey is an experienced lawyer who graduated from Harvard College in 1996 and from Harvard Law School in 2002. He lives in Weston with his wife Anna-Marie Tabor and their three children.