HAMILTON PROJECT - Key Persons
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- Advisory Council
- Director of Athenahealth, Medline Industries
- Director of Edelman Financial Engines
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- Co - Founder of Centerview Partners
- Partner, Centerview Partners LLC
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- Assistant
- Senior Staff Assistant
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- Advisory Council
- Fellow or Member of: the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Christopher Edley, Jr. has spent 40 years influencing public policy and teaching law.
On July 1, 2021, Edley began his term as Interim Dean of the Berkeley School of Education. At Berkeley since 2004, Edley has continued as the Honorable William H. Orrick, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus (2004-13) at the Law School. Before Berkeley, he was a professor at Harvard Law School for 23 years, where Professor Gary Orfield and he co-founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project. Edley's teaching and research are in administrative law, civil rights, and education policy.
Edley co-chaired the congressionally chartered U.S. Department of Education's national Equity and Excellence Commission (2011-13). He served in White House policy and budget positions under presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. In President Clinton's Office of Management and Budget, Edley's portfolio included budgets and major policy matters across five Cabinet departments and 40 independent agencies. Edley also held senior positions in five presidential campaigns: policy director for Michael Dukakis (1988); and senior policy adviser for Al Gore (2000), Howard Dean (2004), Barack Obama (2008), and Hillary Clinton (2016). In 1993, he was a senior economic adviser in the Clinton Presidential Transition, responsible for housing and the regulation of financial institutions. In 2008, he was a board member for the Obama Presidential Transition, with general responsibility for White House priorities in health care, education, and immigration.
Edley was a congressionally appointed member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1999-2005), and a member of the 2001 bipartisan National Commission on Election Reform, which was co-chaired by Presidents Gerald Ford and Carter. He is co-founder (2015) and president emeritus of The Opportunity Institute, which focuses primarily on education equity issues.
Among his professional affiliations, Edley is a fellow or member of: the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; the National Academy of Public Administration; the Council on Foreign Relations; the American Law Institute; and the Advisory Board of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. He is a frequent member or chair of committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Recently, he chaired study committees that evaluated NAEP performance standards, recommended adult literacy standards, and designed a national system of educational equity indicators.
Edley is a graduate of Swarthmore College (mathematics); Harvard Kennedy School (public policy); and Harvard Law School.
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- Chairman of the Boards of Trustees
- Co - Founder and Co - Executive Chairman of the Carlyle Group
- Leader in the Area of Patriotic Philanthropy
- Member of the American Philosophical Society
Rubenstein has been a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Rubenstein has also provided to the U.S. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S. (Abel Buell map), and the first book printed in the U.S. (Bay Psalm Book).
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- Co - President, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies
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- Director of the Institute for Policy Research
- Margaret Walker Alexander Professor and Director, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Nonresident Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
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- Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
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- Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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- Founder of Everblue Management
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- Technologist
- Co - Founder, Schmidt Futures Former CEO & Chairman, Google
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- Chairman and CEO, 76 West Holdings
Este currently serves as the Managing Director of The Hamilton Project in the Economic Studies division at The Brookings Institution. She most recently led communications and advocacy for the pathways, data, and early learning strategies at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She has years of professional experience in state and national campaigns, non-profits and government. Prior to her time at Gates, Este served as chief of staff at the media watchdog, Media Matters for America, during an election cycle where MMA played a prominent role through its research and advocacy efforts. Este served her community as Chief of Staff to the Director of the Washington, DC Department of Employment Services in Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration. She also held roles as campaign manager on a targeted congressional race in southern Ohio in 2008, senior staff on Martin O'Malley's successful 2006 gubernatorial campaign and on Chris Dodd's 2008 presidential campaign. Este holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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- Chairman, North Island Co - Founder, Silver Lake
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- Memorial Professor of Economics & Public Affairs, Princeton University Visiting Senior Fellow. the Brookings Institution
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- Co - Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management
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- Senior Research Assistant
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- Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard University Senior Counselor
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- Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Member of the MIT
- Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deutch served as Director of Central Intelligence from May 1995-December 1996. From 1994-95, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense and served as Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology from 1993-1994. Deutch has also served as Director of Energy Research (1977-79), Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Technology (1979), and Undersecretary (1979-80) in the United States Department of Energy. In addition, Deutch has served on the President's Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee (1980-81); the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (1983); the White House Science Council (1985-89); the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1990-93); the President's Commission on Aviation Safety and Security (1996); the President's Commission on Reducing and Protecting Government Secrecy (1996-97); and as Chairman of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1998-99). He was a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (1997-2001) and a member of the National Petroleum Council (2008-18). He received the Aspen Strategy Group Leadership Award in 2004 and was the Phi Beta Kappa "Orator" at Harvard University, 2005. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council and the American Philosophical Society. In 2009 Deutch received the MIT Gordon Y Billard award: "… for special service of outstanding merit performed for the Institute." He was a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (2012-17) and chair (2014-17).
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- Partner at SSW
- Partner, SSW Partners
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- Member of the National Academy of Medicine
- Professor
- Professor & Founding Dean, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
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- Senior Director of Policy and Communications With the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
- Senior Director of Policy and Communications, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, the University of Chicago
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- Advisor
- Deputy Chief Communications Officer, American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU )
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- Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
Laura D. Tyson is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School and Faculty Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She chairs the Blum Center for Developing Economies Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley. From July 2018 to December 2018, she served as Interim Dean of Berkeley Haas. Previously, she was the Dean of London Business School (2002-2006) and the Dean of the Berkeley Haas (1998-2001). Tyson was a member of the US Department of State Foreign Affairs Policy Board and a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She served in the Clinton Administration as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1993-1995) and as Director of the National Economic Council (1995 - 1996). She is a member of the Board of Directors of AT&T, CBRE Group Inc., Lexmark International Inc., and Apex Swiss Holdings SARL. She is the co-author of Leave No One Behind, a report for the United Nation's High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment.
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- Associate Director
- Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution
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- Media Contact
- Senior Communications Coordinator
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- Senior Events and Outreach Manager
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- Senior Research Assistant
The Project is named after Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Treasury Secretary, who laid the foundation for the modern American economy.
An immigrant born into poverty and self-schooled in his early years, Hamilton symbolizes the traditional American values of opportunity and upward mobility that motivate.