Chiquita Brooks-LaSure

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where she will oversee programs including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the HealthCare.gov health insurance marketplace. She previously acted as the managing director at Manatt Health. Ms. Brooks-LaSure also served in the Obama administration at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2010 to 2014, first as director of coverage policy in the Office of Health Reform and then as deputy center and policy director for the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She was a visiting scholar at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Ms. Brooks-LaSure received her master of public policy degree from Georgetown University.