Luke Bronin

Luke Bronin is a visiting lecturer and senior research scholar in law, and a Tsai Leadership senior distinguished fellow in residence at Yale Law School. He most recently served two terms as mayor of Hartford, Connecticut. Bronin, who took office in 2016 and was re-elected in 2019, led Hartford through the most severe fiscal crisis in the city’s history and the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other achievements, his administration restored fiscal stability, attracted significant economic development investment, and focused on building opportunities for Hartford residents.

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’From 2013 to 2015, Bronin was general counsel to then-Governor of Connecticut Dannel P. Malloy. As the governor's chief legal counsel, he was deeply involved in the development of law and policy addressing gun violence, criminal justice reform, homelessness, and environmental protection, as well as management of the judicial nominations process. 

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He served in the Obama administration as deputy assistant secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes in the US Department of the Treasury, where he was previously senior advisor to the deputy secretary. Bronin was an officer in the US Navy Reserve and served as a member of the military’s anti-corruption task force during his deployment to Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011. Bronin’s private sector experience includes serving as partner at Hinckley Allen, a multi-service law firm, and at the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. Bronin received a BA from Yale College and an MSc from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He holds a JD from Yale Law School.

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