Andy Green

In 2021, Andy Green became the Senior Advisor for Fair and Competitive Markets at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Andy coordinates the USDA’s competition and market regulatory policy as the Senior Advisor. He leads the USDA’s execution of President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in America’s Economy, spearheading the modernization of the Packers and Stockyards Act’s rules to promote fair and competitive markets in livestock and poultry. Before the USDA, Andy was the Managing Director of Economic Policy and then a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he managed an economic policy team that covered macroeconomic policy, budget and tax, trade, financial markets, labor, infrastructure, and more. Andy authored reports on financial regulation, trade policy, antitrust and agriculture policy, and middle-class economics. He previously served as counsel to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission commissioner. Before that, Andy was counsel to U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and the U.S. Senate Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Policy staff director. He participated in the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010 and was the lead staff member for the passage of the prohibition on high-risk trades by banks, named after former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker. Andy began his career practicing corporate securities law in locations such as Hong Kong and Shanghai.