Stephanie Wiggins

Stephanie Wiggins is the CEO of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation  Authority (Metro), the lead transportation planning, programming, financing, and  construction agency for LA County and the US’s second busiest transit agency. As CEO,  Wiggins leads an agency with 12,000 employees, an annual budget of $9 billion and a $26 billion capital program. Ms. Wiggins is the first woman – and first African American woman – to lead Metro.  

At Metro, Wiggins has led massive investments to improve the transit customer experience, expanding safety programs, fare discounts, and implementing the nation’s largest transit  ambassador program. She has also overseen a massive expansion of the Metro system,  connecting it to new destinations in south LA and downtown LA. These collective efforts  resulted in the increase of customer satisfaction rates from under 60% in 2022 to nearly  90% in 2025. Ahead of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Wiggins is also leading  the delivery of dozens of projects that will leave a legacy of permanent transit improvements  for LA County’s residents. 

Before joining Metro as CEO in June 2021, Wiggins served as the CEO of Metrolink and the  Deputy CEO of Metro, where she assisted the CEO in achieving strategic public  transportation objectives, including the passage of a permanent half-cent sales tax to  support transit. 

Wiggins is a graduate of Whittier College and holds an MBA from the University of Southern  California Marshall School of Business.