John Podesta

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Podesta in 2024
Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy
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Relatives Tony Podesta (brother)
Education Knox College (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)

John David Podesta Jr. (born January 8, 1949) is an American political consultant who has been serving as Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy since 2024, having previously served as the Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation from 2022 to 2024. Podesta previously served as White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015. Before that, he served in the Clinton administration as White House staff secretary from 1993 to 1995 and White House deputy chief of staff for operations from 1997 to 1998.

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He is the former president, and now chair and counselor, of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank in Washington, D.C., as well as a visiting professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center and was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. [1] Additionally, he was a co-chairman of the Obama-Biden transition team. [2] [3] [4]

In his current role as senior advisor to President Biden, Podesta oversees the disbursement of $370–783 billion in clean energy tax credits and incentives authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. [5] [6]

On January 31, 2024, it was announced that Podesta would succeed John Kerry as top U.S. climate diplomat. [7]

Early life

Podesta spent most of his early years in Chicago, where he was born, growing up in the neighborhood of Jefferson Park on the city's Northwest Side. [8] His mother, Mary (née Kokoris), was Greek-American, and his father, John David Podesta Sr., was Italian-American. [9] Tony Podesta, a lobbyist, is his brother. [10] [11] Podesta's father did not graduate from high school, but encouraged his children to attend college. [12]

In 1967, Podesta graduated from Lane Tech High School in Chicago. Podesta met Bill Clinton in 1970 when they worked in Connecticut for Joseph Duffey, a candidate for the United States Senate. [13] In 1971, he graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he had served as a volunteer for the presidential candidacy of Eugene McCarthy. [12] He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. [14]

Podesta worked as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice's Honors Program in the Land and Natural Resources Division (1976–77), and as a Special Assistant to the Director of ACTION, the Federal volunteer agency (1978–79). His political career began in 1972, when he worked for George McGovern's unsuccessful presidential campaign. [15]

Career

Podesta held positions on Capitol Hill, including Counselor to Democratic Leader Senator Thomas Daschle (1995–96); Chief Counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee (1987–88); Chief Minority Counsel for the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks; Security and Terrorism; and Regulatory Reform; and Counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee (1979–81). In 1988, he and his brother Tony co-founded Podesta Associates, Inc., a Washington, D.C., "government relations and public affairs" lobbying firm. Now known as the Podesta Group, the firm "has close ties to the Democratic Party and the Obama administration [and] has been retained by some of the biggest corporations in the country, including Wal-Mart, BP and Lockheed Martin." [16]

Clinton administration

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Podesta in 1993

Podesta served as both an assistant to the president and as deputy chief of staff. Earlier, from January 1993 to 1995, he was assistant to the president, staff secretary and a senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy. Podesta was the first White House staffer to get the news of the Lewinsky scandal and was put in charge of managing the crisis. [17] In 1998, he became President Clinton's chief of staff in the second Clinton administration and served in the position until the end of Clinton's time in office in January 2001. Podesta encouraged Executive Order 12958, which led to efforts to declassify millions of pages from the U.S. diplomatic and national security history. [18]

Post-Clinton administration

Podesta meeting with Bill Clinton and Georgetown University president John J. DeGioia in 2006. John Podesta, Bill Clinton, and John DeGioia.jpg
Podesta meeting with Bill Clinton and Georgetown University president John J. DeGioia in 2006.

In 2003, Podesta founded the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., and served as its president and CEO until he stepped down in 2011. (CAP chief operating officer Neera Tanden succeeded Podesta as president and CEO, taking over day-to-day operations.) [19] [20] Podesta remained chairman of the nonexecutive board of directors for a time, [20] [21] and remains on the board as of August 2020, although not as chairman. [22]

Podesta has taught at his alma mater, Georgetown University Law Center, many times over the years, [23] teaching classes on congressional investigations, law and technology, legislation, copyright and public-interest law. [23] [24] On the Georgetown faculty, Podesta's title is Distinguished Visitor from Practice. [24]

From 2002 to 2014, Podesta served as a member of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee. [25] In 2008, he authored The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country. In 2009, he accompanied Bill Clinton to North Korea for negotiations securing the release of two American journalists imprisoned on espionage charges. He can be seen in numerous widely circulated photographs of Clinton meeting with Kim Jong-il. [26]

Podesta opposes the excessive use of classification, and in a 2004 speech at Princeton University condemned what he called the U.S.'s "excessive government secrecy" and "bloated secrecy bureaucracy". [27]

President Obama holds a meeting with John Podesta and Susan Rice aboard Air Force One, 2015 President Barack Obama in a meeting aboard Air Force One en route to New Delhi.jpg
President Obama holds a meeting with John Podesta and Susan Rice aboard Air Force One, 2015

Podesta has called Executive Order 12958, "which set tough standards for classifying documents and led to the unprecedented effort to declassify millions of pages from our nation's diplomatic and national security history," as "perhaps the biggest accomplishment of the Clinton administration." [27] More than 800 million pages of intelligence documents were declassified as part of the program. [28]

Podesta is described as "a longtime advocate for government disclosure of UFO files." [29] Podesta has supported petitions by some who believe UFOs are alien spacecraft to the government to release files related to the subject. At a 2002 news conference organized by Coalition for Freedom of Information Podesta stated that, "It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon." [30]

Podesta wrote the foreword for a book by Leslie Kean titled "UFOs- Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On The Record". The book details numerous contact events by these trained personnel. [31]

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John Podesta testifies before the Senate Budget Committee Task Force on Government Performance.

Podesta became an honorary patron of the University Philosophical Society in March 2006. Podesta is an emeritus member of the Knox College Board of Trustees. [32]

Podesta has served on the board of directors of Bedford, Massachusetts–based energy company Joule Unlimited since January 2011. [33] [34] He has also served on the board of the Portland, Oregon-based Equilibrium Capital. In 2013, Podesta earned $90,000 as a consultant to the West Chester, Pennsylvania-based HJW Foundation, a nonprofit group led by Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss. [33] He was the U.S. representative to the UN High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. [35]

After the 2016 election, Podesta joined The Washington Post as a columnist. [36] Podesta also sits on the steering committee of the China–United States Exchange Foundation. [37]

On September 2, 2022, President Joe Biden appointed Podesta as senior advisor to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation, heading his own new dedicated White House office. [38] [39] [40] For nearly two years in this role, Podesta oversaw the $370–783 billion climate investment authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which was passed the previous month. [41] [5] [6] He left to succeed John Kerry in the role of U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in 2024. [42]

Personal email leak

On October 7, 2016, WikiLeaks started to publish thousands of emails reportedly retrieved from Podesta's private Gmail account, some of which contained controversial material regarding Clinton's positions or campaign strategy. [43] Podesta and the Clinton campaign did not confirm or deny the authenticity of the emails. [44] [45] Experts investigating the leak, including a private security firm called Secureworks, claimed that a Russian hacking group named Fancy Bear gained access to Podesta's account through phishing. [46] Podesta said that Russian intelligence officials attempting to influence the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump were behind the leak. [43]

The United States Intelligence Community released a statement directly accusing Russian intelligence of involvement. [47] [48] [49] [50] Vice President Joe Biden told NBC News that the United States was "sending a message" to Russian President Vladimir Putin and that a wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation would take place in response to the Russians' activities.[ citation needed ] When asked about the leaks, Putin replied that claims of Russian involvement were false. "The hysteria is merely caused by the fact that somebody needs to divert the attention of the American people from the essence of what was exposed by the hackers." [51] [52]

Personal life

Podesta is Catholic and has worked with Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and Catholics United. [53] [54]

He and his wife Mary Podesta, a Washington, D.C. attorney, married in 1978 and have three children. [55] [56] His daughter, Megan Rouse, was the president of the Dublin Unified School District (CA) Board of Trustees. [57] [58] Podesta is an avid cook. [59]

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