Ronald Alan Klain is an American attorney,political consultant,and former lobbyist who served as White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023.
The White House communications director or White House director of communications,also known officially as Assistant to the President for Communications,is part of the senior staff of the president of the United States. The officeholder is responsible for developing and promoting the agenda of the president and leading its media campaign.
Counselor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States and senior members of the White House Office.
Kenneth S. Baer is an American political advisor and author who served as Associate Director for Communications and Strategic Planning and Senior Advisor for White House's Office of Management and Budget from 2009 to 2012. He is the founder and co-editor of Democracy:A Journal of Ideas. Baer is a former White House speechwriter,author,and analyst. And he is the CEO and Founder of the strategic communications firm,Crosscut Strategies.
The White House Office is an entity within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). The White House Office is headed by the White House chief of staff,who is also the head of the Executive Office of the President. The staff work for and report directly to the president,including West Wing staff and the president's senior advisers. Almost all of the White House Office staff are political appointees of the president,do not require Senate confirmation and can be dismissed at the discretion of the president.
Bruce Reed is an American political advisor and non-profit administrator who was the president of the Broad Foundation. Prior to assuming that role in December 2013,he served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and as CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). On December 22,2020,it was announced that Reed would serve as a White House deputy chief of staff in the Biden administration,along with Jen O'Malley Dillon.
Michael C. Donilon is an American attorney and campaign consultant who is a longtime advisor to Joe Biden,the 46th President of the United States. He was the chief strategist of Biden's 2020 presidential campaign and served in the same capacity in the 2024 presidential campaign before Biden dropped out of the race on July 21,2024. He was a senior advisor to Biden during the first three years of his presidency. Prior,Donilon was working as a partner at AKPD Message and Media. Between 2009 and 2013,he served as Counselor to Vice President Biden in the Obama administration. Before his White House appointment,Donilon worked with the vice-presidential candidate to help him prepare for the debates and as a traveling advisor.
Michael A. Waldman is an American attorney and presidential speechwriter and political advisor,currently serving as the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law,a nonprofit law and policy institute. Waldman has led the center since 2005.
Cody Keenan is an American political advisor and speechwriter who served as the director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama. Keenan studied political science at Northwestern University. After graduation,he worked in the U.S. senate office of Ted Kennedy,before studying for a master's in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. After graduation,he took a full-time position on Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009,he assumed the position of deputy director of speechwriting. After Jon Favreau left the White House in 2013,Keenan took over as director of speechwriting.
Jonathan Finer is an American journalist and civil servant who serves as deputy national security advisor under national security advisor Jake Sullivan in the Biden administration. He previously served as the chief of staff and director of policy planning for former Secretary of State John Kerry at the U.S. Department of State.
Herbie Ziskend is an American political advisor and the White House Principal Deputy Communications Director in the Biden administration. He previously served as a senior communications advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris from 2021 to 2022,and as a policy and communications advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.
Gautam Raghavan is an Indian American political advisor who is the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. Raghavan previously served as the associate director of the Office of Public Liaison in the Obama administration.
Julie Chávez Rodriguez is an American political consultant and was the campaign manager for Vice President Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign,transitioning to that role from President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign.
Dylan Loewe is an American speechwriter,political strategist and author. In 2021,Loewe was named chief speechwriter to Apple CEO Tim Cook. He served as chief speechwriter to then-Vice President Joe Biden from 2012 to 2013. He has collaborated with several authors on their memoirs,including the former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Vice President Kamala Harris. In 2010,he authored the book Permanently Blue:How Democrats Can End the Republican Party and Rule the Next Generation.
The presidential transition of Joe Biden began on November 7,2020,and ended on January 20,2021. Unlike previous presidential transitions,which normally take place during the roughly 10-week period between the election in the first week of November and the inauguration on January 20,Biden's presidential transition was shortened somewhat because the General Services Administration under the outgoing first Trump administration did not recognize Biden as the "apparent winner" until November 23.
The White House Director of Speechwriting is a role within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The officeholder serves as senior advisor and chief speechwriter to the president of the United States. They are also responsible for managing the Office of Speechwriting within the Office of Communications.
The Biden Foundation was a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the United States tax code that existed from 2017 to 2019. It was established by then former United States vice president Joe Biden and Jill Biden with the stated mission to "champion progress and prosperity for American families".
Katherine Joan Bedingfield is an American political advisor who served as the White House Communications Director in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2023. She previously served as deputy campaign manager for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign and as communications director for Biden when he was vice president in the Obama administration.
The White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy is an office within the White House Office that is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. It is headed by the Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor,which is president's chief advisor on domestic climate change policy. In addition,the National Climate Advisor serves as vice-chair of the National Climate Task Force.
Aditi Hardikar is an American public official serving as the acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management at the United States Department of the Treasury since 2024. She was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Janet Yellen,the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury,the associate director of public engagement in the White House Office of Public Engagement,and the primary liaison to the LGBTQ and AAPI communities during the second term of the Obama administration.
