Lauren Hoffman

Lauren Hoffman is an Associate Director of Policy for the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia SIPA, where she helps lead policy research and programming for the IGP American Democracy, Ann F. Kaplan Women’s, and Technology & Democracy Initiatives and serves as IGP’s lead strategic advisor on domestic policy. She is also an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs at SIPA. Hoffman was previously the special assistant to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and associate director of IGP. Prior to Columbia, Hoffman was the associate director of the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress, focusing on women’s economic security. Hoffman’s work has been cited by The New York Times, BBC, the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform, Deloitte, The Urban Institute, amicus briefs, and law review articles. Her commentary has been featured in CNBC, Business Insider, Ms. Magazine, The Daily Beast, and MarketWatch. Hoffman has also worked at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, TIME’S UP, the National Women’s Law Center, the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, and with the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. She started her career as a legal analyst at Goldman Sachs. Hoffman graduated with a JD from American University Washington College of Law and a BA from Yale University in Political Science and French.