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Executive Director, Lafayette Square Institute.

Jack Moriarty comes to the Lafayette Square Institute after founding Ownership America, a public policy organization committed to turning Americans into owners. He is a recognized national leader in the employee ownership movement and has led policy initiatives and at the federal and state levels. Jack was a lead architect of the bipartisan Employee Equity Investment Act legislation introduced in 2023 with the aim of catalyzing private investment to create wealth for American workers and communities. He has advised members of Congress in both parties and the White House on opportunities to accelerate the growth of employee ownership as a wealth-building and industrial strategy and has led successful bipartisan state legislative efforts in Massachusetts, Washington State, California, and New Jersey.

Jack has held a number of strategy and operations roles at healthcare delivery and technology companies including Iora Health, Buoy Health, and Allscripts. He also completed a term of service with AmeriCorps Cape Cod where he focused on environmental infrastructure management and natural resource conservation. In 2022, Jack was named to the Massachusetts Baby Bonds Task Force by Treasurer Deb Goldberg.

He currently serves as the inaugural Assistant Director for Policy Analysis at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing and the Experts’ Board of the Institute for Economic Democracy, an NGO based in Slovenia focused on promoting employee ownership structures across the European Union.

Jack received his MBA from the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management where he was a Roy H. Park Leadership Fellow and named a 2020 “MBA to Watch” by Poets & Quants. He received BA & MA in Political Science from Boston University.