[A2k] Obama transition - economics and trade

[Malini Aisola]

http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/12/20/transition-economics-trade/


Obama transition - economics and trade

Who is advising Obama during the transition? An army of well connected
people. Here are the team leaders for economics and international trade.
Many have past public service and current charity work. For those now
working in the for-profit sector, we have emphasized only the business
ties.

Economics and International Trade Team Leads

Corporate, Investment, Law Firm and Consultant

Cunningham, Nelson - Managing Partner and co-founder of McLarty
Associates; member of several corporate boards.   McLarty Asssociates
counsels corporations and financial institutions in the Untied States
and abroad on strateegic planning, government issues and advocacy,
market access, mergers and acquisitioins, corporate communication and
political and economic risk issues worldwide.  McLarty Associates was
previously known as Kissinger McLarty Associates.

Dohrmann, Thomas - Partner at McKinsey & Company

Epstein, Gary - Senior Partner in the Washington office of Latham &
Watkins LLP.   Chair of the Communications Practice Group and leads the
firm=E2=80=99s Telecommunications Law Practice. His practice focuses primar=
ily
on advising companies on United States regulations of
telecommunications, satellite and broadcast providers. He also advises
non-US governments and investors on privatizations and restructurings of
telecom sectors and advises non-US and non-US-owned companies on such
policies as US ownership restrictions and authorizations for
international services.

Fleischmann, Alan H. =E2=80=93 Fleischmann has worked in government, non-pr=
ofit
and business sectors.  For several years, Fleischmann has advised
corporate, individual and political leaders on strategy, communications,
messaging, image and crisis management, positioning, and reputation. He
has worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 corporations, their chief
executives and top leadership, domestically and globally, as senior
director of the international business strategy firm Stonebridge
International and as senior vice president of the strategic
communications firm Penn Schoen & Berland Associates.  He is a former
board member of OFFITBANK, an independent private bank, and a former
senior associate of the Chase Manhattan Private Bank (JP Morgan Chase)
in New York and Argentina.

Gensler, Gary -  Director of Strayer Education.  Advisory Board for New
Mountain Capital, LLC.  Former Partner, Goldman Sachs., and Obama=E2=80=99s
choice to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Gotbaum, Josh - Advisor to investment funds, with a special focus on
restructuring and management turnarounds.   Operating Partner for Blue
Wolf Capital Fund II LP.  Previously an investment banker with Lazard
Fr=C3=A8res, in New York and London, where he specialized in mergers,
acquisitions, and restructurings.

Hochberg, Fred P. - Director, Fusion Telecommunications International,
Incorporated.  Member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Johnson, James - Partner in the litigation department of Debevoise &
Plimpton LLP, focusing on white collar criminal defense, internal
investigations, corporate compliance and corporate crisis management.
Among his recent clients:

      * Forest Laboratories in connection with inquiries by the New York
        State Attorney General and the United States Congress into
        practices involving the sale and distribution of certain
        anti-depressants.
      * A large consumer products manufacturing company in connection
        with alleged violations of sanctions enforced by the Office of
        Foreign Assets Control within the United States Department of
        the Treasury.
      * A Special Committee of the Board of Tommy Hilfiger, in
        connection with an internal investigation and United States
        Attorney=E2=80=99s Office investigation of tax accounting issues re=
lated
        to offshore subsidiaries.
      * The Audit Committee of Telewest, a telecommunications company
        with principal operations in the United Kingdom, in an internal
        investigation of certain accounting and billing practices.
      * A senior manager of Enron North America in connection with the
        investigation of allegations of accounting fraud conducted by
        the United States Department of Justice and the Securities and
        Exchange Commission.
      * Advice to a global beverage company in connection with
        threatened obesity litigation.

Lew, Ginger -   Heads a private consulting firm based in Washington,
D.C. that provides investment and management services.   She is a
director of ATS Corporation, and an advisor with Amplifier Venture
Partners.   She also serves as a member and former Co-Chair of the
NASDAQ Hearing Listing and Review Council, an independent advisory board
to NASDAQ. She is the founder and Chairman of the Association of Asian
American Investment Managers (=E2=80=9DAAAIM=E2=80=9D) and Chairman of the =
Czech/Slovak
American Enterprise Fund.

Mukherjee, Anjan - Managing Director with the Blackstone Group in the
private equity area, with a focus on the evaluation and execution of a
number of investments in a wide range of industries .  Prior to joining
Blackstone, Mukherjee was with the Thomas H. Lee Company and Morgan
Stanley & Co.

Ness, Susan=E2=80=93 Principal of Susan Ness Strategies.  Ness is a
communications policy consultant.

Hundt, Reed -   Since 1998, Mr. Hundt has been a principal of Charles
Ross Partners, LLC, a private investor and advisory service. Also since
1998, he has served as an independent adviser on information industries
to McKinsey & Company, Inc., a management consulting firm, and since
2000, to The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm.  Reed is a member
of several corporate boards including Intel, Data Domain, Inc.,
Infiniera Corporation.

Thompson, Mozelle W. - CEO of Thompson Strategic Consulting which
provides legal, policy and business advice to companies like Facebook,
Inc., SeatSmart.com and others.

Warren, Michael - Chief Operating Officer of Stonebridge International
LLC.  Formerly with McKinsey.  Stonebridge is an elite international
consulting firm with an all-star cast of board members, principals and
advisors.

Academic and other non-profit

Burwell, Sylvia Mathews - President of the Global Development Program at
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Henry, Peter Blair - Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International
Economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research;
research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research;
Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution; member of the
Council on Foreign Relations.

Cook, Lisa D. - Assistant Professor of Economics at Michigan State
University.

Rosston, Gregory L. - Lecturer in economics and public policy at
Stanford University; Deputy Director of the Stanford Institute for
Economic Policy Research and the Public Policy program; Advisory board
member for Sustainable Conservation and the Nepal Youth Opportunity
Fund.

Shane, Peter M. - Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at
the Ohio State University=E2=80=99s Moritz College of Law.

Weiser, Phil - Professor of law at the University of Colorado where he
writes and teaches in the areas of antitrust policy, innovation policy,
and Internet policy.

Harrington, Larry.  No bio given.

Official bios available at:
http://change.gov/learn/economics_and_international_trade_team_leads/
http://change.gov/learn/working_group_members





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