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Bradford R. Higgins is an American lawyer, investment banker, and former American government official who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and Chief Financial Officer of the United States Department of State from 2006 to 2009. Higgins received his B.A. (1974) from and J.D. (1978) from Columbia University. He started his career as an associate at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City.
He worked at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was Managing Director and manager of Municipal utilities and Infrastructure groups.
He also worked at Goldman Sachs, where he was co-head of the tax-free energy group.
He then joined Bear Stearns Asset Management as Managing Director in charge of marketing pensions in the public sector.
Higgins has served in Iraq twice, first as Head of Planning for the Iraq Reconstruction Authority in Baghdad, Iraq, and as Finance Director of the Interim Coalition Administration in Baghdad in 2004.
In 2005, he returned and worked as a senior adviser to the US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and the first director of the Strategic Activities and Evaluation Department of the US Mission in Iraq.
He was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and Finance Director, through which he led assessment teams in Iraq and led to the $18.4 billion Iraq reconstruction program.
He joined the U.S. Department of State in 2004 and was appointed Assistant Secretary of State and Chief Financial Officer on December 13 , 2005 by President George W. Bush , succeeding Christopher Burnham .
In 2008 , he was elected Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Organization of American States and Senior Advisor to the United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States Hector Morales .
He left the State Department on January 20, 2009.
He is also a venture partner at SOSV, where he invests in energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Higgins is currently president and chairman of the board of JumpStart International, a humanitarian aid organization that has done extensive work in Iraq and is currently working in Gaza.
