Neera Tanden
President of the Center for American Progress; Biden's domestic policy chief 2023–2025.
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- Neera Tanden is an American policy adviser and president and chief executive of the Center for American Progress, which she helped found in 2003 and led before joining the Biden administration in 2021.
- In that administration she was senior adviser and staff secretary from 2021 to 2023 and director of the Domestic Policy Council from 2023 to 2025.
- She worked for Hillary Clinton for years, as her Senate legislative director and as policy director of her 2008 campaign.
Key facts
- Current role
- President and CEO, Center for American Progress1
- Born
- 10 September 1970, Bedford, Massachusetts1
- Education
- BA, UCLA (1992); JD, Yale Law School (1996)1
- Clinton years
- Associate director for domestic policy in the Clinton White House; Hillary Clinton's Senate legislative director from 2003 to 2005; policy director of her 2008 presidential campaign1
- Center for American Progress
- Central to its founding in 2003; senior vice president for domestic policy, chief operating officer from 2010, then president until 20211
- Biden administration
- Nomination as OMB director withdrawn in 2021; senior adviser from May 2021 and staff secretary from October 2021; director of the Domestic Policy Council from 2023 to 20251
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