Holdren is a leading advocate of a greater role for scientists in policy development, and he has worked for decades to get Washington to focus ...
No one would have thought that Summers, 54, would slip easily into the relative anonymity of this White House post, but that is exactly what ...
Furman, 38, didn't know Obama in June 2008 when he was invited to head the presidential campaign's policy-making operation. His appointment was an effort to ...
Froman, 46, has ties to both Obamas: He was a classmate of the president's and a fellow member of the law review at Harvard Law ...
Congress created the council in 1946 to give the president and the public economic analysis and advice independent of political slant. In practice, chairmen end ...
Bernstein, 53, is the most progressive member of the Obama economic team, but it is not yet clear how much influence he is having in ...
How does it happen? Now and then, the media anoints someone a rising star, an avatar of the new regime. That person is Orszag, 40, ...
"When you go from academia to government, the first shock is having a boss," laughs Liebman, an economics professor who left Harvard's Kennedy School of ...
Returning to government has been a major adjustment for Baer, his family, and even his wardrobe. For the past eight years, Baer, 36, ran a ...
Briggs has a broad portfolio at OMB, dealing with budget and appropriations issues with Cabinet departments such as Commerce; Homeland Security; Housing and Urban Development; ...
