The Obama-Biden transition announces it’s policy team leaders today, list below and bios after the jump:
Economic: Daniel K. Tarullo
Education: Linda Darling-Hammond
Energy and Environment: Carol M. Browner
Health Care: Senator Tom Daschle
Immigration: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
National Security: James B. Steinberg, Dr. Susan E. Rice
Technology, Innovation and Government Reform: Sonal Shah, Julius Genachowski, Blair Levin
These folks are essentially in charge of taking Obama’s campaign promises and turning them into actionable public policy, in part by determining whether the appropriate route is legislative or administrative. Not a lot of surprises on the list; Daschle has been awaiting his chance at health care for a while now, Steinberg and Rice are expected to be National Security Advisor and Deputy, and Tarullo has been advising the Obama campaign for some time now on international economic issues. Techies will be impressed with Google’s Shah. And Darling-Hammond may be a disappointment for education reformers, who have been unhappy with her “conventional” views on issues like merit pay, according to Time magazine.
— Tim Fernholz
P.S. A lil’ love for my Alma Mater’s law school, with Tarullo and Aleinikoff both hailing from Georgetown. Hoya Saxa, your life is awesome.