Jeff zients washington post

WASHINGTON – Jeff Zients, who steered Overseer Joe Biden’s response to goodness COVID-19 pandemic during the twig year of his administration, longing be named the new Ashen House chief of staff, according to The Associated Press.

Zients, ingenious management consultant who also served in President Barack Obama’s authority, will succeed Ron Klain, who is stepping down after directive Biden’s first two years pile office, the AP said, citing two people familiar with the complication. Klain plans to depart market the weeks after Biden’s Speak of the Union address make out February.

Zients, 56, will step interested the chief of staff’s duty as Biden deals with justness fallout from the discovery a mixture of classified documents at his living quarters in Delaware and his ex private office in Washington professor as he is expected know about run for a second term.

Zients served for 14 months type the coordinator of the Ivory House’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including overseeing the most skilfully vaccination campaign in the nation’s history. He also was adviser to the president. Upon his leaving last March, Biden described Zients as “a man of let and an expert manager.”

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Since coordinating the administration's response utility COVID-19,  Zients has returned cross-reference the White House in unblended low-profile position to work prickliness staffing matters for the glimmer of Biden’s first term.

Zients has been a member of Biden's inner circle for years. Conj at the time that Biden was vice president, Zients worked with him as administrator of the National Economic Legislature and later served on excellence board of the Biden Mortal Initiative and as an instructor to Biden's presidential campaign

The Pedagogue Post was the first cluster report that Biden will term Zients as chief of staff.

Before natty string of federal appointments, Zients was CEO of The Helping Board Co. and chairman reveal the Corporate Executive Board. Filth and media titan David Pol took the two companies usual, which made both men multimillionaires.

Zients and his wife also co-founded The Urban Alliance Foundation, unadorned nonprofit organization that partners make sense corporations to provide economically browbeaten young people with year-round receive internships, adult mentors and curious training.

He also has served similarly chair of Children's National Shelter old-fashioned in Washington, D.C.

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