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Gene Sperling
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| Organization: | 2024 Kamala Harris presidential campaign |
| Role: | Economic adviser |
| Affiliation: | Democratic |
| Education: | • University of Minnesota • Yale Law School |
Gene Sperling is an economist who served as a director of the National Economic Council during the Clinton and Obama administrations.[1]
The Washington Post reported on March 14, 2021, that President Joe Biden (D) had selected Sperling to oversee the implementation of the stimulus bill, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.[1] For more information about the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, click here.
Sperling resigned from the Biden administration in August 2024, and joined Kamala Harris's (D) 2024 presidential campaign as a senior advisor.[2]
Biography
Sperling received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He was assistant director of the National Economic Council from 1993 to 1997 and director of the council from 1997 to 2001 in the Clinton administration. He returned to this role during the Obama administration. He also served as a counsel to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.[3][4]
Sperling founded the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations and Brookings Institution. He co-wrote and wrote, respectively, What Works in Girls’ Education: Evidence and Policies from the Developing World and The Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity. Sperling was also a senior fellow for economic policy at the Center for American Progress.[5]
Following his government service, Sperling led Sperling Economic Strategies and became a contributing editor to The Atlantic.[6]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Washington Post, "Gene Sperling to oversee $1.9 trillion stimulus," March 14, 2021
- ↑ Associated Press, "Senior economics aide Gene Sperling is leaving the White House to work on the Harris campaign," August 5, 2024
- ↑ Simon & Schuster, "Gene Sperling," accessed March 15, 2021
- ↑ Jewish Virtual Library, "Gene Sperling," accessed March 15, 2021
- ↑ Obama White House, "Gene Sperling," accessed March 15, 2021
- ↑ Washington Speakers Bureau, "Gene Sperling," accessed March 15, 2021
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