On Sunday, US President-elect Joe Biden announced the appointments for the communications staff of his future White House. which will be composed exclusively of women. In the coming days, the US newspapers also write, Biden is expected to announce some appointments for important roles in various bodies that deal with Economics and the names of Neera Tanden, former adviser to Hillary Clinton, and the economist Cecilia Rouse are circulating. Biden he promised to appoint many women to his administration and said he wanted to introduce new rules to ensure that the hiring of the many federal agencies take into account criteria of diversity and inclusiveness.
The next White House press secretary – the person who represents the president at the daily White House press conferences – will be Jennifer Psaki, 41, a longtime Democratic Party spokesperson and former Obama administration. The director of communications of the Biden administration – who will have control over all communication of the administration – will instead be 39-year-old Kate Bedingfield, former deputy director of the Biden electoral committee.
Psaki’s deputy will be Karine Jean Pierre, Bedingfield’s deputy will be Pili Tobar and two women will also be the main collaborators of vice president Kamala Harris. Symone Sanders, former councilor on Biden’s electoral committee, will be Harris ‘spokesperson, while Ashley Etienne, former adviser to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will serve as Harris’ communications director. Finally, Elizabeth Alexander was chosen to be the communications manager of Jill Biden, the next first lady.
The next director of the Treasury Department, as has been known for a few days, will be Janet Yellen, a highly respected economist who had already been president of the Federal Reserve, the American central bank, and on Sunday Wall Street Journal he wrote that Biden intends to appoint several women to other important financial positions as well.
Neera Tanden, former director of a major Washington progressive think tank and former adviser to Hillary Clinton, should be appointed head of the influential Office of Management and Budget, which among other things checks the implementation of the president’s policies. The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), a group of three close advisers to the president for economic affairs, will be made up mostly of women: Cecilia Rouse, an economist at Princeton University, will be its president, and Heather Boushey and Jared Bernstein will have the other two places.
Biden, who for a week was able to formally initiate the transition of powers with the Trump administration, he had also already announced the appointments of Linda Thomas-Greenfield as ambassador to the United Nations and Avril Haines as director of National Intelligence: the highest office in the entire American intelligence sector, which is also overseen by the CIA. Finally, the Secretary of Defense could also be a woman: for days we have been talking about the possible appointment of Michèle Flournoy, although Biden does not seem to have made a final decision yet.
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