The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States. The Cabinet generally meets with the president in a room adjacent to the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House. The president chairs the meetings but is not formally a member of the Cabinet. The vice president of the United States serves in the Cabinet by statute. The heads of departments,appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate,are members of the Cabinet,and acting department heads also participate in Cabinet meetings whether or not they have been officially nominated for Senate confirmation. Members of the Cabinet are political appointees and administratively operate their departments. As appointed officers heading federal agencies,these Cabinet Secretaries are bureaucrats with full administrative control over their respective departments. The president may designate heads of other agencies and non-Senate-confirmed members of the Executive Office of the President as members of the Cabinet.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) was the United States Government's Development finance institution until it merged with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to form the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). OPIC mobilized private capital to help solve critical development challenges and in doing so,advanced the foreign policy of the United States and national security objectives.
Ross J. Connelly is the former executive vice president and COO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Prior to OPIC,Connelly worked for Bechtel Corporation;he was an executive (1977) and later a senior principal with Bechtel Investments and the president of Bechtel Energy Resources,Inc.. In 1993,Connelly was elected President of Northgas,a Bechtel joint-venture dedicated to developing natural gas resources in northern Russia. He held this position until he left Bechtel in 1995.
The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state. The executive departments are the administrative arms of the president of the United States. There are currently 15 executive departments.
Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III is an American businessman. He was the finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's presidential campaign.
Samuel Wright Bodman III was an American businessman,engineer,and politician who served as the 11th United States Secretary of Energy during the George W. Bush administration,from 2005 to 2009. He was also,at different times,the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and the Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is an inter-agency committee in the United States government that reviews the national security implications of foreign investments in the U.S. economy.
George Muñoz is an American businessman,CPA and attorney. He is the president and co-founder of Muñoz Investment Banking Group which is primarily focused on financing and investments in the Emerging Markets Countries as well as in the U.S. Hispanic community. He is also a partner at Tobin &Muñoz,a Chicago-based law firm focused on commercial litigation,white collar investigations and litigation,and international transactions,where he works out of the firm's Chicago and Washington,D.C. offices.
Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. is an American businessman who served as the 39th United States Secretary of Commerce from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party,Ross was previously chairman and chief executive officer of WL Ross &Co from 2000 to 2017.
Robert Adam Mosbacher Jr. is an American businessman,founder of BizCorps,and the former head of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). Nominated by U.S. President George W. Bush,Mosbacher was sworn in as the ninth president and chief executive officer of OPIC in October 2005.
John Joseph Sullivan is an American attorney and government official who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2020 to 2022,and who previously served as the 19th United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Sullivan served as Acting United States Secretary of State from April 1,2018,to April 26,2018,following President Donald Trump's dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13,2018,until Tillerson's official successor,Mike Pompeo,was sworn in. Tillerson did not officially leave office until March 31,2018. Sullivan,however,was delegated all responsibilities of the Secretary of State beginning March 13.
Gina Marie Raimondo is an American businesswoman,lawyer,politician,and venture capitalist who served from 2021 to 2025 as the 40th United States secretary of commerce. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as the 75th governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021,and was the first woman to serve in the role.
Ray Willets Washburne is an American businessman,political fundraiser,and government official. He co-founded the M Crowd Restaurant Group,which owns Mi Cocina and other restaurants. He served as President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation from 2017 to 2019 and as a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board from 2019 to 2020.
William Francis HagertyIV is an American politician,businessman,and diplomat serving as the junior United States senator from Tennessee since 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 30th United States ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2019 under President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump assumed office as the 45th president of the United States on January 20,2017,and his first term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Michael John Kotsakas Kratsios is an American business executive and government official. He served as the fourth Chief Technology Officer of the United States at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role,Kratsios served as President Donald Trump's top technology advisor. From July 10,2020 to January 20,2021,Kratsios was also the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is a development finance institution and agency of the United States federal government. DFC invests in development projects primarily in lower and middle-income countries. First authorized on 5 October 2018 by the BUILD Act,the independent agency was formed on 20 December 2019 by merging the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),as well as with several other smaller offices and funds.
Leonardo Felice Gorordo is an American entrepreneur,investor and diplomat,currently serving as the United States Alternate Executive Director of the World Bank. He assumed this position on May 10,2023,and has been acting as the U.S. Executive Director of the World Bank since September 2023. He is best known for his work on Cuba–United States relations through both advocacy and public service. Gorordo's career includes service in the White House under Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush,as well as an advisor to President Joe Biden's Cancer Initiative.
Adam Seth Boehler is an American businessman and government official who served as the first chief executive officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation from 2019 to 2021. He is currently the chief executive officer of Rubicon Founders,a health care investment firm based in Nashville. He is the founder of Landmark Health.
The Blue Dot Network (BDN) is a multilateral organisation that promotes a certification framework for quality infrastructure projects. The initiative is a joint project of the governments of Australia,the Czech Republic,Japan,Spain,Switzerland,United Kingdom,and the United States that supports investment in high-quality infrastructure projects around the world,especially by the private sector.
