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Who's Who on the Obama Agency-Review Teams

Most are veterans of the Clinton administration

Posted November 12, 2008

Louisa Terrell Louisa Terrell is a Working Group member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Team. Louisa is on leave from her role as Senior Director at Yahoo!'s public policy office in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Yahoo! Louisa was Deputy Chief of Staff for Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Previously, Louisa was counsel for Senator Biden on his Senate Judiciary Committee staff where she handled criminal sentencing, juvenile justice, child protection, immigration policy and women's issues, among other areas and before that worked in the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.

Ray Rivera is a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group. He was most recently State Director for the Obama-Biden Campaign in Colorado. He was also the State Director for the Colorado Caucus and served as Northeast Field Desk out of Chicago headquarters early in the campaign. Prior to the Obama Campaign, Ray was a Political Director for AFSCME, public employee's labor union and a union organizer. Ray was born in Albuquerque, NM and graduated with a BA from the University of New Mexico in 2001.

Michael Warren is a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group helping to oversee the international trade and economics agencies. He is on partial leave from his role as Chief Operating Officer of Stonebridge International LLC., where he is a member of the firm's Management Committee. Prior to joining Stonebridge, Warren led corporate development at Horne Engineering Services and served as President of Appfluent Technologies. He also serves as Chairman of Ironbridge Systems. He is on the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Retirement Board, Catalist, the DC Minority Business Enterprise Center Advisory Board, Southeastern University's Center for Entrepreneurship, Civitas, and the National Child Research Center. Warren previously worked at McKinsey & Company, both as a strategic consultant in the technology and financial institutions industries and as a fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, advising corporate leaders in the U.S. and Asian semiconductor industries. He served within the White House as Executive Director of the President's National Economic Council.

Tom Wheeler is a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group responsible for the science, technology, space and arts agencies. He has taken a leave of absence from Core Capital Partners, a venture capital firm working with early stage technology companies, where he is a Managing Director. For three decades, Wheeler has worked at the forefront of technology, both as an entrepreneur and as a policy specialist. He has been the CEO of the National Cable Television Association and the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, as well as the founder or co-founder of multiple new technology companies. Wheeler is the author of two books: Mr. Lincoln ' s T-Mails and Leadership Lessons from the Civil War.

Jon Wilkins is a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group. He has taken a partial leave of absence from McKinsey & Company, where he is a partner in the Washington, DC office. Jon first joined McKinsey in 1996. He then worked at the Federal Communications Commission from 1998-1999 before re-joining McKinsey in 1999. He was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

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Reader Comments

Transition Team

Before the Nov. 4 outcome, I thought that B.O.'s election would be just a "second term" of Carter. Now I see the error of my ways. This appears to be a third term for Clinton. Perhaps B.O. did not expect to win, and is now calling on the members of the Clinton team who will still talk to him, after bumping Hillary for the nomination, to prop him up. We'll just have to wait and see.

Latin America

If Latin America is important (it should be)for the Obama Administration someone in his Agency Review Team should talk to or preferably interview Ambassador Donna Hrinak, the very best Ambassador we ever received in Brazil (from any and all countries), a brilliant US professional diplomat and a great lady, whose too early removal from my country by President Bush brought worries and chagrin to many Brazilian citizens concerned with keeping a good, sincere and constructive relationship between Brazil and the USA. She speaks both Spanish and Portuguese fluently and without a flaw, and knows a huge lot about Latin America as a whole.

Antonio J T Bueno

Latin America

If Latin America is important (it should be)for the Obama Administration someone in his Agency Review Team should talk to or preferably interview Ambassador Donna Hrinak, the very best Ambassador we ever received in Brazil (from any and all countries), a brilliant US professional diplomat and a great lady, whose too early removal from my country by President Bush brought worries and chagrin to many Brazilian citizens concerned with keeping a good, sincere and constructive relationship between Brazil and the USA. She speaks both Spanish and Portuguese fluently and without a flaw, and knows a huge lot about Latin America as a whole.

Antonio J T Bueno

Economist and former Brazilian diplomat.

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