Alejandro Rodriguez serves as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Commerce. As Chief of Staff, he advises the Deputy Secretary on a range of management, policy and operational issues, and manages the day-to-day operations of the office. Alejandro works closely with senior Department leaders as they collaborate to implement the top policy priorities of the Obama administration.

Prior to joining the Commerce Department, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee, where he was among the first senior staff directors hired to build the infrastructure from the ground up to support hiring, onboarding, and office and resource management for more than 500 eventual employees.  He was previously the Deputy Chief of Staff for the 2012 Democratic National Convention Committee in Charlotte, North Carolina. In that position he was tasked with preliminary planning for all aspects of staffing, budget and office build-out, and later helped manage and close out operations.

Rodriguez also served as the Convention Operations Manager for the Democratic National Committee in Washington during the entire site selection process for the 2012 Convention, and spent more than three years in the United States Senate serving as an aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Senator Paul G. Kirk, Jr. Prior to his work on Capitol Hill, Rodriguez worked for Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, the Kerry Edwards 2004 Presidential Coordinated Campaign, and for the Boston Host Committee for the 2004 Democratic National Convention. 

Originally from El Paso, Texas, Rodriguez graduated with an A.B. in Government from Harvard University.