Neha Gupta

Neha Gupta is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel at Partners for Public Good (PPG), where she oversees the organization’s strategy and impact, operations, growth, and public affairs. A former government lawyer, she has built her career at the intersection of law, policy, and innovative governance—with a focus on making public institutions more effective and responsive to the people they serve.

Before helping to build and launch PPG, Neha applied this focus across federal, state, and local government. She served as Associate Counsel to President Biden at the White House, where she advised on crisis response, implementation of major investments in national infrastructure, supports for working families and children, and initiatives to strengthen intergovernmental collaboration. In San Francisco, she acted as chief counsel to major agencies, and spearheaded legal-policy initiatives that included reforming the city’s cash bail system, streamlining fire code enforcement and hazard response, and overseeing the task force that guided implementation of novel AI-enabled technologies across city government.

Neha began her legal career representing domestic violence survivors in family court and immigrants in deportation proceedings, experiences that underscored how effective and fair public systems can shape fundamental life outcomes. Her commitment to ensuring government protects public rights and upholds the rule of law is rooted in her background in global health, where she supported community health initiatives on the ground in India and Tanzania, coordinated a multilateral response to Haiti’s cholera epidemic led by Partners In Health, and penned strategies to drive need-based medical innovation and expand affordable access to lifesaving medicines around the world.

Neha holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from Harvard University. She has served on several nonprofit boards and is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Urban Institute.