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William Spriggs, Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary for Policy
Phone: (202) 806-6717
US Department of Labor
200 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20210
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Type of Asset Work
Policy advocate/policymaker, Researcher
Area(s) of Expertise
Social Security & Social Insurance
Specific Population Focus
None Listed
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In April of 2009, William Spriggs was nominated to the post of Assistant Secretary for Policy at the US Department of Labor, and recently served on the Agency Review Team for the Department of Labor for the transition efforts of President Obama. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Spriggs was Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. He has published extensively on issues related to poverty, race, and economic justice in both academic and popular journals, and has appeared on national and local television and radio news programs.In the spring of 2008, he co-authored "Beyond the Mountaintop: King's Prescription for Poverty", for the Rosenberg Foundation, to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prior to joining the Howard faculty, Dr. Spriggs was the Executive Director of the National Urban League's (NUL) Institute for Opportunity and Equality, where among other duties he was editor of the State of Black America 1999, and led research on pay equity that won the NUL the 2001 Winn Newman Award from the National Committee on Pay Equity. As a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, Dr. Spriggs was the co-chair of the 2003 NASI conference that produced the volume, Strengthening Community: Social Insurance in a Diverse America. In 2004, with several of his civil rights advocate colleagues, Dr. Spriggs was awarded the Congressional Black Caucus Chairman's Award. On behalf of the NUL, Dr. Spriggs gave congressional testimony on how various policies would affect Black and low-income communities, and participated in the UN World Conference Against Racism, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance. Before joining the NUL, Dr. Spriggs held various positions in government service during the Clinton Administration. He is a past-board member and President of the National Economic Association, and currently serves on the boards of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In 2006 he was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration. Dr. Spriggs also serves as Vice Chair of the Board of the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute, and sits on the boards of the National Employment Law Project and the National Advisory Council of Corporate Voices for Working Families. Dr. Spriggs received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellow.
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