Elena Hoffnagle is Vice President at Partners for Public Good (PPG), where she oversees teams working to set new standards for procurement excellence and scale innovative government operations practices across the United States. Previously, Elena was a Director at the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab
(GPL), where she spent seven years helping to build the GPL’s procurement portfolio. This work included designing new executive education programs helping over 100 city leaders grow their potential to solve thorny problems facing their governments and leading the launch of the Procurement Excellence Network. Elena has also worked at the National League of Cities, where she managed Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties, a key part of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative to reduce childhood obesity.