Gautam Raghavan | |
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Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office | |
In office January 31, 2022 –January 20, 2025 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Catherine Russell |
Succeeded by | Sergio Gor |
Personal details | |
Born | India |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Stanford University (BA) George Washington University |
Gautam Raghavan is a political advisor who was the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. [1] Raghavan previously served as the associate director of the Office of Public Liaison in the Obama administration.
Raghavan was born in India and raised in Seattle,Washington. [2] He attended Stanford University, [2] where he was a member of the Stanford Harmonics. [3]
Raghavan was the associate director of the Office of Public Liaison under President Obama,acting as a liaison to both the LGBT and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities from 2011 to 2017. [4]
He has also worked for the Progressive Majority,the 2008 Obama campaign,the Democratic National Committee, [5] the Gill Foundation, [6] and the U.S. Department of Defense as the outreach lead for its "Don't Ask,Don’t Tell" Working Group. [5]
Outside of government,Raghavan has worked as a consultant for progressive organizations including the Biden Foundation [4] and the Indian American Impact Project,an initiative that supports Indian Americans in politics which he founded in 2016. [7] [8] Raghavan was the editor of West Wingers:Stories from the Dream Chasers,Change Makers,and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House,which includes personal accounts by eighteen Obama Administration staffers. [9]
From December 2018 to July 2020,Raghavan was the chief of staff for Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. [10] In June 2020,Biden selected Raghavan to serve on his presidential transition team. [11]
Raghavan is openly gay. He lives with his husband and daughter in Washington D.C. [12] He is of Tamil descent. [13]