Key Policy Experts

Advising the Obama Campaign

Source: Obama for America, Nov. 2007

 

Foreign Affairs and Defense

 

  • Anthony Lake, former National Security Adviser
  • Susan Rice, former Assistant Secretary of State
  • Samantha Power, Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy
  • Maj. General Merrill McPeak, former Chief of Staff, U.S.Air Force
  • General Scott Gration, former Director of Strategy, U.S. European Command

 

Economics

 

  • William Daley, former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Austan Goolsbee, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
  • Dan Tarullo, former Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy; Professor of Law, Georgetown University
  • Jeffrey Liebman, former Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Edward Montgomery, former Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Department of Labor; Professor of Economics and Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland
  • Christina Romer, Professor of Economics, University of California (Berkeley)

 

Health Care

 

  • David Blumenthal, Director, Institute for Health Policy, Harvard Medical School
  • David Cutler, former Senior Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers and Director, National Economic Council; Professor of Applied Economics and Dean of Social Sciences, Harvard University
  • Richard Brown, Director, Center for Health Policy Research, UCLA
  • Helen Halpin, Director, Center for Health and Public Policy Studies, and Professor of Public Health, University of California (Berkeley)

 

Education

 

  • Cassandra Butts, Senior Vice President for Domestic Policy, Center for American Progress
  • Linda Darling-Hammond, Professor of Education, Stanford University
  • Inez Tenenbaum, former State Superintendent of Education, South Carolina

 

 

Environment and Energy

 

  • Federico Pena, former Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Transportation
  • Robert Sussman, former Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
  • George Frampton, former Chairman, Council for Environmental Quality; former Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Lois Schiffer, former Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources, U.S. Department of Justice

 

Technology and Telecommunications

 

  • Reed Hundt, former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
  • William Kennard, former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
  • Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University
  • Beth Noveck, Professor of Law, New York Law School

 

Law

 

  • Eric Holder, former Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
  • John Schmidt, former Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Laurence Tribe, Professor of Law, Harvard University
  • Cass Sunstein, Professor of Law, University of Chicago
  • Geoffrey Stone, Professor of Law, University of Chicago
  • Martha Minow, Professor of Law, Harvard University
  • Ronald Sullivan, Professor of Law, Harvard University

 

Urban Policy

 

  • William Julius Wilson, Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark, New Jersey

 

Housing

 

  • Ingrid Ellen, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning, New York University
  • William Apgar, former Assistant Secretary of Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

 

Labor

 

  • William Gould, former Chairman, National Labor Relations Board
  • Seth Harris, former Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor

 

Women

 

  • Karen Mulhauser, former Executive Director, NARAL
  • Judy Gold, Partner, Perkins, Coie; former Chair, Illinois Commission on the Status of Women

 

Children

 

  • Barbara Bowman, Founder and Former President, Erikson Institute

 

LGBT

 

  • Tobias Wolff, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

 

Agriculture

 

  • Michael Dunn, former Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Charles Rawls, former General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture

 

Retirement Security

 

  • Stanford Ross, former Commissioner of Social Security
  • Nancy Altman, Chair, Board of Directors, Pension Rights Center

 

Immigration

 

  • Tino Cuellar, Professor of Law, Stanford University

 

Arts

 

  • George Stevens, Hollywood producer, director and writer; Founder, American Film Institute

 

 

 

 

November 2007