Education -
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E.
Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she
has launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
and the School Redesign Network. Her research, teaching, and policy
work focus on issues of school reform, teaching quality and educational
equity. She is a former president of the American Educational
Research Association and member of the executive board of the National
Academy of Education. She has been a leader in the standards
movement, chairing both the New York State Curriculum and Assessment
Council as it adopted new standards and assessments for students and
the Interstate New Teachers Support and Assessment Council (INTASC) as
it developed new standards for teachers. From 1994-2001, she served as
executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s
Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most:
Teaching for America’s Future, was named in 2006 as one of the most
influential affecting U.S. education, and Darling-Hammond was named one
of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational
policy. She received her BA from Yale University, magna cum
laude, in 1973 and her Doctorate in Urban Education from Temple
University in 1978. She began her career as a public school
teacher.
Group Members
Ian Bassin
Jeanne Century
Robert Gordon
Kris Gutiérrez
John Jackson
David Kirp
Goodwin Liu
Ray Mabus
Geri Palast
Steve Robinson
Bob Shireman
Jon Vaupel
Energy
and Environment - Carol M. Browner [PHOTO]
Carol M. Browner is the longest
serving Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency serving
from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, she served as Florida Secretary
of the Environment. Browner is a founder and principal of The
Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm and of Albright Capital
Management, an investment advisory firm that focuses on emerging
markets. Browner serves as the chair of the National Audubon
Society Board of Directors, and sits on the Board of Directors of APX,
the Alliance for Climate Protection, the Center for American Progress
and the League of Conservation Voters.
Group Members
Joe Aldy
Shouvik Banerjee
Jason Grumet
Lukas McGowan
Dan Reicher
David Sandalow
Todd Stern
Meridith Webster
Heather Zichal
Health Care -
Senator Tom Daschle
Currently, Senator Tom Daschle is an advisor to
the law firm of Alston and Bird, where he provides strategic advice on
public policy issues such as climate change, energy, health care,
trade, financial services, and telecommunications. He is also a
Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Visiting
Professor at Georgetown University and a public speaker. In 2007,
he joined with former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and
Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization
dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing public
policy challenges of our time. He is also Co-Chair of the ONE Vote ’08
Campaign, along with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to address health and poverty in
the developing world in a more aggressive and successful way.
Daschle was
elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, serving eight
years. In 1986, Daschle was elected to the U.S. Senate. Two years
later he became the first Co-Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy
Committee and the first South Dakotan to be elected to a leadership
position in the U.S. Congress. In 1994, Daschle was elected by
his colleagues as their Democratic Leader. Daschle is one of the
longest-serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the only one
to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader.
Group Members
Lauren Aronson
Jenny Backus
Jonathan Blum
Jennifer Cannistra
Mark Childress
David Cutler
Elizabeth Engel
Dora Hughes
Jeanne Lambrew
Terrell McSweeny
Rahul Rajkumar
Immigration
- T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Mariano-Florentino
(Tino) Cuéllar
T. Alexander Aleinikoff has been Dean of the Georgetown
University Law Center and Executive Vice President of Georgetown
University since July 2004. He has been a member of the
Georgetown faculty since 1997. Dean Aleinikoff served as General
Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs at the
Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the
Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004 he was a Senior Associate at
the Migration Policy Institute, where he now serves on the Board of
Trustees. He has written widely on immigration, refugee and
citizenship law and constitutional law. Dean Aleinikoff is a
graduate of Swarthmore College
and Yale Law School.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is Professor and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. His work focuses on how organizations manage complex regulatory, migration, international security, and criminal justice problems. During the Clinton Administration he served at Treasury as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement, where he worked on countering domestic and international financial crime, improving border coordination, and enhancing anti-corruption measures. He has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including Asylum Access and the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has testified before Congress on immigration policy and separation of powers, and was appointed to the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Group Members
Preeta Bansal
Dennis Burke
Maria Echaveste
Tara Magner
David Martin
Esther Olavarria
Shilpa Phadke
Mark Rosenblum
National
Security - James B. Steinberg and Dr. Susan E. Rice
James B. Steinberg is dean of the
LBJ School of Public Affairs (2006-present) and is a former Deputy
National Security Advisor to President Clinton (1996-2000). His
previous positions include vice president and director of Foreign
Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (2001-2005), director of
the Policy Planning Staff (1994-1996) and Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Regional Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
(1993-1994) at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of and
contributor to many books on foreign policy and national security
topics, including, most recently, with Kurt Campbell, Difficult
Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Power.
Dr. Susan E. Rice served most
recently as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Obama for America
campaign while on leave from the Brookings Institution where she is a
Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development
Programs. Rice currently serves on the Obama-Biden Transition
Project Advisory Board. From 1997-2001, she was U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs. Prior to that, Rice
served in the White House at the National Security Council as Special
Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs and
as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping.
Rice was previously a management consultant at McKinsey and
Company. She received her B.A. in History with Honors from
Stanford University and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degrees in
International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes
Scholar.
Group Members
Jeffrey Bader
Jeremy Bash
Antony Blinken
Gregory Craig
Ivo Daalder
Richard Danzig
Mary De Rosa
Michele Flournoy
Stephen Flynn
Michelle Gavin
Philip Gordon
Scott Gration
Frank Januzzi
Colin Kahl
Liz King
Paul Kurtz
Daniel Kurtzer
Ellen Laipson
Mark Lippert
Denis McDonough
Michael McFaul
Carlos Monje
Erin O'Connor
Peter Ogden
Joseph Paulsen
Daniel Restrepo
Bruce Riedel
Dennis Ross
Mara Rudman
Whitney Schneidman
Eric Schwartz
Sarah Sewall
Daniel Shapiro
Steven Simon
Peter Singer
Gayle Smith
Mona Sutphen
Jennifer Urizar
Toni Verstandig
Jeremy Weinstein
Sonal Shah heads Google.org’s global development efforts. Prior to joining Google, she was Vice President at Goldman, Sachs and Co. developing and implementing the firm’s environmental policy. She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a U.S.-based non-profit organization offering one-year fellowships Indian-Americans to work on development projects in India. Sonal also worked at the Center for American Progress on trade, outsourcing and post conflict issues and the Center for Global Development on development policy issues. Sonal worked at the Department of Treasury from 1995-2002 on various economic issues and regions of the world, including Bosnia, Kosovo, the Asian crisis and sub-Saharan Africa. During that time she also worked at the National Security Council from 1998-1999. Sonal received her BA in economics from the University of Chicago and her MA in economics from Duke University. She is on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
Julius Genachowski is co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital, a special advisor at General Atlantic, and a member of various boards of directors and advisors. From 1997 to 2005, he was a senior executive at IAC/InterActiveCorp, where his roles included Chief of Business Operations, General Counsel, and a member of the Office of the Chairman. Genachowski served at the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1997, including as Chief Counsel to the Chairman. >From 1991 to 1994 he served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (ret.), and to Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He worked in Congress from 1985 to 1988, for Sen. Charles E. Schumer (then a U.S. Representative), and for the joint select committee on the Iran-Contra Affair. He is on the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board.
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