Brent Orrell
Senior Vice President and Practice Director, Federal Human Services Market
Brent Orrell came to The Lewin Group with broad expertise in the Legislative and Executive Branches of the U.S. government. He has more than 20 years experience developing broad experience and extensive knowledge in a wide-range of policy areas including: workforce and talent development, prisoner re-entry, faith-based and community initiatives, refugee resettlement, welfare, human services, child welfare and emergency preparedness and response. In his most recent Federal role, Brent was Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) where he oversaw the nation’s $10 billion Workforce Investment Act (WIA) system that includes programming in workforce development, youth employment and development, unemployment insurance, foreign labor certification, and prisoner re-entry. His past roles include senior management positions at the Administration for Children and Families (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), as Director of the Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives at the U.S. Department of Labor, and worked on Capitol Hill for both Democratic and Republican members of the House and Senate for more than 14 years. For the past two years, he had worked as a Senior Fellow in the Family Self-Sufficiency area at ICF International. Brent has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon.
brent.orrell@lewin.com