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President Biden’s Team Confirmed choices of the 46th President

Secretary of Secretary of State Secretary of Defense Treasury

Antony Blinken Former Deputy Former Chairwoman of Retired General, former Secretary of State the Federal Reserve head of U.S. Central Board Command

Secretary of Health and Secretary of Housing and Secretary of Agriculture Human Services Urban Development

Tom Vilsack Former Secretary of Current Attorney Congresswoman from Agriculture under General of and former chair of the Obama, former Congressional Black Caucus Governor of

Secretary of Secretary of Veteran Affairs Secretary of Transportation Homeland Security

Pete Buttigieg Denis McDonough Mayor of South Bend, Former White House Former Deputy IN and former Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland presidential candidate Deputy National Security Security Advisor during the Obama Administration President Biden’s Team Rumored choices of the 46th President

U.S. Attorney Secretary of Secretary of General Interior Commerce

Doug Jones Steve Bullock Ursula Burns Former Senator from and former U.S. Governor of Montana and former presidential Member of the Board of Directors of Uber Attorney candidate

Raul Grivalja Rohit Chopra Senator from Minnesota and former Congressman from Arizona and Chair of the Committee on Natural Resources Current Commissioner of the FTC, consumer presidential candidate that gave key advocate and the progressive’s choice endorsement to Biden in the primaries Congresswoman from Arizona, one of the first Susan Helper Native American women elected to Congress Former Chief Economist of the Department of Chair of the Democratic National Committee Commerce and former secretary of Labor Junior Senator from Sally Yates Indra Nooyi Former acting AG under Obama and outspoken Former CEO of PepsiCo critic of Trump’s Department of Justice Retiring Senator from New Mexico

Secretary of Secretary of Energy Secretary of Labor Education Former Governor of Michigan and previous Lily Eskelsen Garcia Congressman from MI, former labor organizer front-runner for the position under Obama President of the influential interest group, National Education Association Jay Inslee Former Secretary of Labor under Obama Jahana Hayes Climate Crisis advocate and Governor of Congresswoman from , former Washington state Julie Su public school teacher Secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency Denise Juneau Former Energy Secretary under Obama Superintendent of Public Schools Mayor of Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Betty A. Rosa Jenny Yang Former Coordinator for Defense Policy, Interim Commissioner of Education and Former chair of the Equal Employment Countering WMDs, and Arms Control under President of the University of the State of Opportunity Commission Obama

Sonja Santelises CEO of City Public Schools

Domestic Climate Czar FCC Chair EPA Administrator Jennifer Granholm Former Governor of Michigan Mignon Clyburn Former commissioner at the FCC Ranking Member of the Senate Environment Jay Inslee and Public Works Committee Climate Crisis advocate and Governor of Washington state Jay Inslee Climate Crisis advocate and Governor of Ali Zaida Washington state New York State Deputy Secretary for Energy Current Member of the Federal and Environment Communications Commission Mary Nichols Chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board Former White House Chief of Staff to President Obama

Gina McCarthy Former EPA Administrator under Obama Senior Administration Officials and Staff Bios People supporting the 46th President

Neera Tanden, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. President of Center for American Progress, a position in which she has served since 2011. Previously, Tanden worked in the Obama Administration as Senior Adviser to Secretary of Health and Human Services , working to build the . Tanden also served as policy staff on the Presidential campaigns of , , and .

Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, Deputy Treasury Secretary. Nigerian-American and first President of the Obama Foundation. Adeyemo served in many economic and trade-related positions during the Obama Administration, including Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. Adeyemo also represented the U.S. at the G7, G20, and as chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s macroeconomics policy.

Cecilia Rouse, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. Dean of the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, a position she has held since 2012. Rouse previously served as a member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and President Clinton’s National Economic Council. Rouse's research focuses on labor economics and the economics of education.

Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence. International lawyer and Director of the World Projects. During the Obama Administration, Haines served as the Deputy National Security Advisor, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs. Haines has worked in multiple positions at the Department of State and as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then-Chairman Biden. Senior Administration Officials and Staff Bios People supporting the 46th President

Ron Klain, Chief of Staff for President Biden. Former Chief of Staff to Vice President , and served as President-elect Biden’s Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2011. Klain is perhaps best known in recent history for serving as the White House Ebola Response Coordinator from 2014 to 2015, where he managed the federal response to the West African Ebola epidemic. Klain has also previously served as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Legislative Director for (D-MA) during his time in the House of Representatives, and Chief of Staff to Attorney General .

Louisa Terrell, Director of Legislative Affairs. Deputy General Counsel and Head of Public Affairs at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm. Terrell previously served as Special Assistant to President Obama for Legislative Affairs, Advisor to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman , Chief of Staff for Sen. (D-NJ) and Deputy Chief of Staff for then-Senator Biden. Terrell has also worked in policy positions for the Biden Foundation, Yahoo, and Facebook.

Shuwanza Goff, Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs. Currently serves as the Floor Director for Legislative Operations for House Majority leader (D-MD) and has been a career House staffer since 2008. Goff has served in Majority Leader Hoyer’s officer since 2008, when she came onboard as a Staff Assistant; she would eventually rise to serve as Hoyer’s Deputy Director of Legislative Operations.

Reema Dodin, Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs. Currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff and Floor Director for Senator (D-IL), a position she has held since 2011. Dodin has served in Sen. Durbin’s office for the majority of her career, having started working in the office after interning there in 2006. She also volunteered for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, as well as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Dodin is a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project, as well as the New Leaders Council. Senior Administration Officials and Staff Bios People supporting the 46th President

Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor. Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, with a focus on national security and foreign policy. Sullivan previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Deputy Assistant to President Obama, and National Security Advisor to then-Vice President Biden. Sullivan was involved in the Iran nuclear negotiations as a senior adviser to the U.S. government.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Ambassador to the United Nations. Career diplomat, having served in the Department of State since joining the Foreign Service in 1982 until 2017. Thomas-Greenfield most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and was previously the Director General of the Foreign Service, and U.S. Ambassador to Liberia. Before her diplomatic career, Thomas-Greenfield taught political science at Bucknell University.

Brian Deese, . Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock, an investment management company. Deese previously served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, and Senior Advisor to the President on climate and energy during the Obama Administration. Deese also worked on President Obama’s 2008 campaign, as an economic adviser and member of the transition’s Economic Policy Working Group.

Dana Remus, White House Counsel. Attorney who has served as Deputy Counsel for Ethics to President Obama, General Counsel for the Obama Foundation, Counsel to Michelle Obama, and General Counsel for the Biden 2020 presidential campaign. Remus previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and taught judicial and legal ethics at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Senior Administration Officials and Staff Bios People supporting the 46th President

Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General. A physician and founder of Doctors for America, an organization of doctors advocating for equal access to affordable healthcare for all. Murthy previously served as the Surgeon General and a member of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Presidential Advisory Council on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health under President Obama.

Jeffrey Zients, White House COVID-19 Coordinator. Biden transition co-chair, on leave from his position as CEO of the investment firm Cranemere. Under President Obama, Zients served Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Director of the National Economic Council, and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. Zients also previously worked for the Advisory Board Company, Corporate Executive Board, board of Sirius XM Radia, and board of Facebook.

Rachel Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infectious disease physician at General Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Walensky previously served as Chair of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health and a member of the Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. Walensky’s career has focused on HIV and AIDS.

Dr. , Chief Medical Advisor on COVID-19. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, a position he has held since 1984. Dr. Fauci is also a member of the Trump Administration’s White House Coronavirus Task Force. Dr. Fauci has served as a physician for the National Institutes of Health and has advised every president since Ronald Reagan. Senior Administration Officials and Staff Bios People supporting the 46th President

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, Chair of the COVID-19 Equity Task Force. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine, Associate Dean for Health Equity Research, and Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center. Dr. Nunez-Smith has advised Connecticut, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands on COVID-19 policies. Her research focuses on achieving health and healthcare equity for populations that are structurally marginalized.

Natalie Quillan, Deputy Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response. Deputy Campaign Manager for President-elect Biden. During the Obama Administration, Quillian served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Advisor to the White House Chief of Staff, focusing on gun violence and the opioid epidemic. Quillian also held multiple positions on the National Security Council, Department of Defense, U.S. Mission to NATO, and U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan.

Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative. Chief lawyer on trade for the House Ways and Means Committee and previously served in the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Tai also served as Chief Counsel for China Trade Enforcement where her work focused on the development and litigation of U.S. disputes against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO).