Gustav P. Chiarello is the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources at the Department of Health and Human Services, overseeing all aspects of the department’s budget, financial management, contracts, grants and spending. Prior to joining HHS, Mr. Chiarello served as Senior Special Counsel to the House Committee on the Judiciary, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, where he served on the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform and Antitrust, chaired by Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, following a long career with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as an antitrust and competition policy lawyer.
Mr. Chiarello spent several years in private practice before joining the FTC, where he specialized in, among other things, competition and healthcare policy, technology antitrust investigations, and hospital mergers. Mr. Chiarello handled several cases impacting rural hospitals and states seeking to exempt health systems from antitrust enforcement. During the first Trump administration, he served as an attorney advisor to the then Acting FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen, with a particular focus on policies to promote economic liberty through reduced federal and state regulation.
Mr. Chiarello obtained his Juris Doctorate from the George Mason University School of Law, earned his master’s in public policy from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics/Human Resource Management from the Catholic University of America. Mr. Chiarello is a native of Cooperstown, New York, and lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, where they raised their four children.