David G. Greenfield is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Met Council, the nation’s largest Jewish poverty-fighting organization. He has put Met Council at the forefront of using AI to expand human services, paying every staff member during work hours to learn AI in an organization-wide initiative designed to grow services and prove that organizations can adopt AI while preserving jobs.

Thanks to these initiatives, Met Council now serves more than 350,000 New Yorkers each year, the most in its over 50-year history, through direct services, policy advocacy, and AI-powered innovation, including its digital food pantry, Market by Met Council, taught as a Harvard Business School case study.

David is a sought-after voice on AI and the future of work. He has authored op-eds on AI, jobs, and the social contract in major publications, is regularly quoted in outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and New York Daily News, and lectures regularly on how leaders in government, philanthropy, and human services can responsibly integrate AI to strengthen the workforce rather than shrink it.

David is an accomplished former legislator and policy leader. In his eight years in the New York City Council, he authored nearly thirty pieces of legislation signed into law by Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio, including historic measures mandating affordable housing, authoring vision zero, and providing free security guards for hundreds of thousands of private school children.

David chaired the City Council’s influential Committee on Land Use from 2014 through 2017, overseeing the Department of City Planning, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. He was instrumental in developing a new affordable housing plan for New York and rezoning four neighborhoods, including East Midtown Manhattan. He also served on the Speaker’s leadership team and the Council’s budget negotiation team, which sets the city’s more than $100 billion budget with the Mayor’s Office.

Prior to the City Council, David was Executive Vice President of the Sephardic Community Federation and the founding Director and Counsel of TEACH NYS, where he advocated for parents of New York State’s 500,000 Catholic, Jewish, and independent schoolchildren and secured legislation providing $600 million in tax credits to parents of all school-age children.

David is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as Senior Editor of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, and Touro College, where he graduated summa cum laude and was valedictorian. He has been named to City & State’s Power 100 lists of most powerful New Yorkers, most influential non-profit leaders, and Brooklyn’s most powerful leaders, and was recognized as among the top ten most influential residents of Brooklyn. David also teaches the next generation of lawyers as Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.