Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bryan Mercier is the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Prior to his appointment on September 30, 2024, he served as the regional director of BIA’s Northwest Region. He has spent 20 years working in public service, starting as a Morris K. Udall Foundation Intern and Mark O. Hatfield Fellow with Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon.
Mercier’s federal service began with the USDA Forest Service before he joined the Department of the Treasury’s Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institution Fund. Previously, he served as the executive manager of Fish and Wildlife for the Bonneville Power Administration’s Environment, Fish, and Wildlife Program, the largest environmental mitigation program in the United States.
Mercier holds an undergraduate degree in business management from the University of Oregon (1997), a graduate certificate in economics from the Universität Freiburg in Germany (2000), and a graduate degree in human rights and international law from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain (2003).
He is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.
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