Doreen Brasseaux has more than thirty-seven years of executive leadership experience in the public and private sector. Her expertise lies in legislative advocacy, stakeholder engagement, policy development, and issues management across a diverse range of subject matters including healthcare, transportation and infrastructure, conservation, higher education, association leadership, and public health.

Before joining Sequitur, Doreen served as President and CEO of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Louisiana, a 130-member statewide organization of consulting engineering firms serving public and private clients. In this role, Doreen advanced the organization’s statewide priorities, improved the overall financial health of the organization, successfully advocated for the legislative priorities of the engineering business community, implemented new administrative efficiencies and introduced new programming.

In 2008, based upon her healthcare policy expertise as the Director of Healthcare Reform at the La. Department of Health, Doreen was recruited to LSU to serve as Assistant Vice President of Health Affairs and Medical Education. She advised LSU’s leadership on health policy, represented the university’s healthcare organizations at the Louisiana Legislature and participated in the planning, programming and construction of the new $1 billion University Medical Center in New Orleans including building public and legislative support of the teaching hospital’s business plan. 

In addition to her role overseeing healthcare policy, Doreen was tapped to serve as the chief executive of the Office of the LSU Board of Supervisors, managing all policy and administrative issues considered by the Board. In this role, Doreen served as the liaison between the management board, the LSU President and the system’s eight campuses.

Doreen also served as the Policy Director for the Governor’s office under Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, leading the policy and legislative agenda for the state’s recovery and rebuilding following Hurricane Katrina and spent sixteen years serving three Attorneys General leading legislative strategy, statewide stakeholder engagement, grants management and overseeing multiple administrative sections.