WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack
Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key
Administration posts:
Andrew Mayock – Deputy
Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget
Edith Ramirez – Commissioner and
Chair, Federal Trade Commission
Alan J. Kreczko – Member,
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board
James R. White – Member,
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board
President Obama also announced his
intent to appoint the following individual to a key Administration
post:
John F. Kirby – Assistant
Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of State
President Obama said, “It gives
me great confidence that such dedicated and capable individuals will serve the
American people as part of this Administration. I look forward to working with
them.”
Andrew Mayock is a Senior
Advisor in the Office of the Director at the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), a position he has held since November 2015. Prior to this role,
Mr. Mayock served as the Associate Director for General Government Programs at
OMB, a position he held since 2013. Mr. Mayock was Deputy Vice President
for Compact Implementation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation from 2010 to
2013. From 2009 to 2010, he was the Executive Secretary at the Department
of Treasury. Mr. Mayock was a Senior Associate for Development and
International Diplomacy at Booz Allen Hamilton from 2003 to 2008 and served as
an International Trade Consultant at the Center for Business and Government at
Harvard University from 2001 to 2002. Mr. Mayock worked at the White
House from 1997 to 2000, first as Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief of
Staff and then Senior Advisor to the Director of Public Liaison. Mr.
Mayock served as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff at the Department of
the Treasury from 1995 to 1996. He received a B.A. from the University of
Illinois, an M.P.A from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University,
and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School.
Edith Ramirez is Chair of the
Federal Trade Commission, a position she has held since 2013. She has
also served as a Commissioner since 2010. From 1997 to 2010, Ms. Ramirez was a
partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. Previously,
Ms. Ramirez was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP in Los
Angeles from 1993 to 1996. She clerked for Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1992 to 1993.
Ms. Ramirez has served as a Member (Government Official) on the Council of the
Administrative Conference of the United States since 2013. Ms. Ramirez received
a B.A. from Harvard-Radcliffe College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Alan J. Kreczko is a Special
Advisor to the CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group. Mr. Kreczko
has held the positions of General Counsel and Executive Vice President from
2007 to 2015 and Deputy General Counsel from
2003 to 2007 at The Hartford Financial Services Group. From 1976 to 2003,
Mr. Kreczko held a variety of roles at the Department of State and the National
Security Council, including Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and
Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau for Population, Refugees and
Migration from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Kreczko also served as Special Assistant
to the President and Legal Advisor to the National Security Council from 1993
to 1997 and Deputy Legal Advisor at the Department of State from 1988 to 1993.
Mr. Kreczko received an A.B. from Boston College and a J.D. from the University
of Michigan Law School.
Dr. James R. White served as
Director for Tax Policy and Administration at the Government Accountability
Office (GAO) from 1998 to February 2015. Since then, he has advised the
Tax Policy Center at American University’s Kogod School of Business and served
as an independent consultant. Dr. White’s tenure at the GAO includes
serving as Associate Director from 1995 to 1998, Acting Chief Economist from
1993 to 1995, Assistant Director from 1991 to 1993, and Senior Economist from
1990 to 1991. From 2000 to 2015, Dr. White was also an adjunct instructor
in the Graduate Public Administration Program at George Mason University.
Dr. White worked at Hamilton College as an Associate Professor in the
Department of Economics from 1989 to 1990 and as an Assistant Professor from
1982 to 1989. During his time at Hamilton College, Dr. White was named a
Senior Fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government. He previously
was a Visiting Professor at Williams College from 1981 to 1982 and an Instructor
at New York University from 1978 to 1980. Dr. White received a B.A. from
the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Columbia
University.
John F. Kirby is the
Spokesperson at the Department of State, a position he has held since May
2015. Mr. Kirby retired from the U.S. Navy as a Rear Admiral in
2015. He served as Pentagon Press Secretary from 2013 to 2015, Chief of
Information for the Department of the Navy from 2012 to 2013, and Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Media Operations from 2011 to 2012.
Prior to that, Mr. Kirby was Special Assistant for Public Affairs to the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011 and Special Assistant
for Public Affairs to the Chief of Naval Operations from 2005 to 2007. He
was commissioned as an officer in the Navy in 1986. Mr. Kirby received a
B.A. from the University of South Florida, an M.S. from Troy State University,
and an M.A. from the Naval War College.
Source: The White House, Office
of the Press Secretary
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