The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council,chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30,2001,by George W. Bush,was re-chartered by Barack Obama's April 21,2010,Executive Order 13539,by Donald Trump's October 22,2019,Executive Order 13895,and by Joe Biden's February 1,2021,Executive Order 14007.
Valerie June Jarrett is an American businesswoman and former government official serving as the chief executive officer of the Obama Foundation since 2021. She previously served as the senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama and assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs from 2009 to 2017. Before that,she served as a co-chair of the Obama–Biden Transition Project.
ServiceNation was a campaign of Be The Change,Inc.,a 501(c)(3) organization based in Boston,Massachusetts. Its mission is to rekindle an ethic of civic responsibility in America through universal national service. ServiceNation's goal was to expand opportunities for Americans to spend a year in non-military national service such as AmeriCorps. National service programs like Americorps pay a living stipend and reward volunteers who have completed service with a monetary education award.
Joshua DuBois is an executive and former government official who served as the head of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the Executive Office of the President of the United States from 2009 to 2013. In February 2013 he stepped down to write a book of devotionals based on the ones he sends Obama,start a consulting firm,and become the weekly religion and community solutions columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. DuBois has been included among "The Root 100" and Ebony Magazine's "Power 150" lists of the most influential African Americans in the country. He also appeared on the cover of Christianity Today magazine as one of the 33 most influential Christian leaders under 33. In September 2017 it was announced that DuBois would become a CNN Contributor.
The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation was an office new to the Obama Administration,created within the White House,to catalyze new and innovative ways of encouraging government to do business differently. Its first director was the economist Sonal Shah. The final director was David Wilkinson.
Brady J. Deaton,is an American educator and the former chancellor of the University of Missouri in Columbia,Missouri.
Rita Eleanor Hauser is an international lawyer known for persuading Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization to renounce violence in 1988. She also served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from 1969 to 1972. George W. Bush appointed her to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board in 2001,serving through 2004,and she was appointed again by Barack Obama in 2009.
Brooke D. Anderson is an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador at the United Nations,as Chief of Staff and Counselor for the White House National Security Council,and as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary for Political Affairs on the Iran Nuclear Negotiations. She has served as a trusted advisor to U.S. presidents,Cabinet Secretaries,members of Congress,presidential candidates,philanthropists and business leaders.
Joel Lamstein is the co-founder and president of John Snow,Inc. (JSI) and JSI Research &Training Institute,Inc.,global public health research and consulting firms. Founded in 1978,JSI has more than 3,200 employees worldwide dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities,working across the United States and the world.
Aaron S. Williams is an international development expert and a former diplomat. He served as the 18th Director of the Peace Corps from 2009 to 2012 under President Barack Obama.
Lisa Oudens Monaco is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor and national security official who has served as the 39th and current United States Deputy Attorney General since April 21,2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Danielle Gray is the former Assistant to the President,Cabinet Secretary,and a Senior Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama. Previously,Gray served as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council and Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. Gray is currently executive vice president and global chief legal officer of Walgreen Boots Alliance.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama,from January 1,2014 to December 31,2014. For his time as president-elect,see the presidential transition of Barack Obama;for a detailed account of his first months in office,see first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency;for a complete itinerary of his travels,see list of presidential trips made by Barack Obama.
The United States–Africa Leaders Summit 2014 was an international summit held in Washington D.C. from August 4–6,2014. Leaders from fifty African states attended the three-day summit,which was hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama. The summit primarily focused on trade,investment and security of the continent. Leaders from 50 of the 54 existing African sovereign nations were invited to attend. After the summit,the White House produced a number of Fact Sheets that summarized major outcomes.
Timothy M. Broas is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from March 19,2014,to February 13,2016.
Gayle Elizabeth Smith is the former CEO of the One Campaign. Smith was formerly Coordinator for Global COVID Response and Health Security at the U.S. Department of State. and was the former Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Steven Radelet is an American economist working within the field of International Development. He holds the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and is also the Director of the Global Human Development Program (GHDP) at Georgetown University,a program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Catherine Ann Novelli is president of Listening for America,a non-profit organization in international trade policy. She was formerly a U.S. diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth,Energy,and the Environment at the U.S. Department of State from 2014 to 2017. She was also the State Department's Senior Coordinator for International Information Technology Diplomacy.
The Franklin Project was a policy program of the Aspen Institute from October 2012 to December 2015,that focused on advancing national service in the United States. Walter Isaacson called the project the "biggest idea" to come out of the Aspen Ideas Festival during his tenure as CEO of the Aspen Institute. In January 2016,the project merged with ServiceNation and the Service Year Exchange project of the National Conference on Citizenship to form Service Year Alliance.
Raymond "Ray" Paul Dolan is an American mechanical engineer,executive,and former United States Marine Corps pilot notable for his involvement in the development of the CDMA-based digital cellular technology known as IS-95A. Dolan also oversaw the development of the signal processing technology Flash-OFDM. He co-founded Flarion Technologies,which was acquired by Qualcomm,and currently leads Cohere Technologies.
