US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris appointed her Chief of Staff, National Policy Advisor and National Security Advisor, a team of women, who she said has the experience to start from day one.
“Leading my office as the Chief of Staff will be Tina Flournoy, whose deep experience, public policy expertise and a successful career in public service make her uniquely qualified for this important position,” Harris said Thursday.
Tina has a strong commitment to serving the American people and her leadership will be critical as we work to overcome the unprecedented challenges facing our nation, she said.
“I will serve as my National Security Advisor will be Ambassador Nancy McEldowney, whose distinguished career in the Foreign Service and leadership abroad will be invaluable as we keep the American people safe and advance the interests of our country around the world,” he announced. Harris.
The national policy adviser will be Rohini Kosoglu, he said.
She is not only an expert on some of the most important issues facing the American people, “but also one of my closest and most trusted aides in the Senate and the presidential campaign,” said the vice president-elect.
“Together with the rest of my team, the individuals appointed today will work to control this virus (Covid-19), open up our economy responsibly and ensure that it lifts up all Americans, and restore and advance our country’s leadership in all the world”. Harris said.
Flournoy currently serves as former President Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff. Before joining Clinton’s team, Flournoy was Assistant to the President for Public Policy in the American Federation of Teachers, an international union representing more than 1.6 million members, where he led the work of the legislative, political, field, and mobilization, and human rights and community outreach departments.
Flournoy has held various positions in the Democratic Party over the past three decades, including head of the transition team for Governor Howard Dean’s Democratic National Committee; Itinerant Chief of Staff for the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Joseph Lieberman; Director of Finance for the Gore 2000 Presidential Campaign; Deputy Campaign Director in the 1992 Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition Office; and, in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel during the Clinton-Gore administration.
Kosoglu currently serves as Harris Senior Advisor on the Biden-Harris Transition Team and previously served as Senior Advisor on the Biden-Harris Campaign.
Prior to that, she was a 2020 Spring Resident Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics.
Kosoglu has a dedicated career in public service and was the first woman from South America to serve as Chief of Staff in the United States Senate. She served as Chief of Staff to Vice President-elect Harris for his Senate office and later for his presidential campaign.
Prior to that, she was the policy director for US Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, where she oversaw economic, healthcare and budget affairs. She has negotiated several bipartisan bills into law and served as senior health care advisor during the writing and passage of the Affordable Care Act.
He also previously served as a legislative aide to US Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. Originally from New Jersey, Kosoglu graduated from the University of Michigan and George Washington University and is the mother of three young children.
McEldowney served for more than 30 years in the United States Foreign Service, including as the United States Ambassador to Bulgaria and as Charge d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission to Turkey and Azerbaijan.
During her time at the State Department, she served as Director of the Foreign Service Institute, where she directed the foreign affairs training center for the United States government, and also served as Acting President and Senior Vice President of the University of National defense.
Earlier in her career, she was a leading policy adviser in Europe, working for President Clinton as Director of European Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, and as Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Office of European and Eurasian Affairs. , where he worked, he directed the United States government’s engagement with NATO, the European Union, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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