Francisco Sánchez Jr.

Associate Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Francisco Sánchez, Jr. was appointed in January 2022 by President Joseph R. Biden to serve as Associate Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), where he oversees the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience. He is the chief architect of the greatest transformation of SBA’s disaster enterprise in the agency’s 70-year history.

Under his leadership the SBA is revamping its disaster and resilience enterprise with new bold initiatives on climate change, resilience, diversity, and equity.

Before joining the SBA, Associate Administrator Sánchez helped lead emergency management and homeland security efforts in the Houston region where he led strategic development, planning, public affairs, and community preparedness initiatives in the nation’s third largest county. He has served on command staff for four of the nation’s ten most devastating natural disasters and is involved in public safety at the local, state, and national levels.

During the Biden-Harris Administration, Associate Administrator Sánchez has led SBA’s efforts in over 400 disasters and $6.5 billion in disaster lending to businesses, homeowners, renters, and private non-profits.

He is a graduate of the University of Houston and Sam Houston State University.