American political consultant (born 1949)
John Podesta
Podesta in 2024
Assumed office March 6, 2024President
Joe Biden Preceded by
John Kerry Assumed office September 2, 2022President Joe Biden Deputy Kristina Costa Preceded by Office established In office January 1, 2014 – February 13, 2015President
Barack Obama Preceded by
Pete Rouse Succeeded by
Kellyanne Conway In office October 20, 1998 – January 20, 2001President
Bill Clinton
Deputy
Steve Ricchetti
Maria Echaveste Preceded by
Erskine Bowles Succeeded by
Andy Card In office January 20, 1997 – October 20, 1998President
Bill Clinton
Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles Preceded by
Evelyn Lieberman Succeeded by
Steve Ricchetti In office January 20, 1993 – June 30, 1995President
Bill Clinton Preceded by
Phillip Brady Succeeded by
Todd Stern
Born John David Podesta Jr.
(1949-01-08 ) January 8, 1949 (age 75)
Chicago, Illinois , U.S.Political party
Democratic Spouse
Mary Podesta
(
m. 1978)
Children 3 Relatives
Tony Podesta (brother) Education
Knox College (
BA )
Georgetown University (
JD )
John David Podesta Jr. (born January 8, 1949) is an American
political consultant who has served as
senior advisor to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation since September 2022. Podesta previously served as
White House chief of staff to
President
Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and
counselor to President
Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015. Before that, he served in the
Clinton administration as
White House staff secretary from 1993 to 1995 and
White House deputy chief of staff for operations from 1997 to 1998.
He is the former president, and now chair and counselor, of the
Center for American Progress (CAP), a
think tank in Washington, D.C., as well as a visiting professor of law at the
Georgetown University Law Center and was chairman of
Hillary Clinton ’s
2016 presidential campaign .
[1] Additionally, he was a co-chairman of the
Obama-Biden transition team .
[2]
[3]
[4]
In his current role as senior advisor to President Biden, Podesta oversees the disbursement of $370–783 billion in clean energy tax credits and incentives authorized by the
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 .
[5]
[6]
On January 31, 2024, it was announced that Podesta will succeed
John Kerry as
top U.S. climate diplomat .
[7]
Early life
Podesta spent most of his early years in Chicago, where he was born, growing up in the neighborhood of
Jefferson Park on the city's
Northwest Side .
[8] His mother, Mary (née Kokoris), was
Greek-American , and his father, John David Podesta Sr., was
Italian-American .
[9]
Tony Podesta , a lobbyist, is his brother.
[10]
[11] Podesta's father did not graduate from high school, but encouraged his children to attend college.
[12]
In 1967, Podesta graduated from
Lane Tech High School in Chicago. Podesta met Bill Clinton in 1970 when they worked in Connecticut for
Joseph Duffey , a candidate for the United States Senate.
[13] In 1971, he graduated from
Knox College in
Galesburg, Illinois , where he had served as a volunteer for the presidential candidacy of
Eugene McCarthy .
[12] He received his
J.D. from
Georgetown University Law Center in 1976.
[14]
Podesta worked as a trial attorney for the
Department of Justice 's Honors Program in the Land and Natural Resources Division (1976–77), and as a Special Assistant to the Director of
ACTION , the Federal volunteer agency (1978–79). His political career began in
1972 , when he worked for
George McGovern 's unsuccessful
presidential campaign .
[15]
Career
Podesta held positions on
Capitol Hill , including Counselor to Democratic Leader Senator
Thomas Daschle (1995–96); Chief Counsel for the Senate Agriculture Committee (1987–88); Chief Minority Counsel for the
United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks ; Security and Terrorism; and Regulatory Reform; and Counsel on the Majority Staff of the
Senate Judiciary Committee (1979–81). In 1988, he and his brother Tony co-founded
Podesta Associates, Inc. , a Washington, D.C., "government relations and public affairs"
lobbying firm. Now known as the
Podesta Group , the firm "has close ties to the
Democratic Party and the
Obama administration [and] has been retained by some of the biggest corporations in the country, including
Wal-Mart ,
BP and
Lockheed Martin ."
[16]
Clinton administration
Podesta in 1993
Podesta served as both an assistant to the president and as
deputy chief of staff . Earlier, from January 1993 to 1995, he was assistant to the president,
staff secretary and a senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy. Podesta was the first White House staffer to get the news of the
Lewinsky scandal and was put in charge of managing the crisis.
[17] In 1998, he became President Clinton's chief of staff in the second
Clinton administration and served in the position until the end of Clinton's time in office in January 2001. Podesta encouraged
Executive Order 12958 , which led to efforts to declassify millions of pages from the U.S. diplomatic and national security history.
[18]
Post-Clinton administration
Podesta meeting with
Bill Clinton and
Georgetown University president
John J. DeGioia in 2006.
In 2003, Podesta founded the
Center for American Progress , a
liberal
think tank in Washington, D.C., and served as its president and CEO until he stepped down in 2011. (CAP chief operating officer
Neera Tanden succeeded Podesta as president and CEO, taking over day-to-day operations.)
[19]
[20] Podesta remained chairman of the nonexecutive board of directors for a time,
[20]
[21] and remains on the board as of August 2020, although not as chairman.
[22]
Podesta has taught at his alma mater,
Georgetown University Law Center , many times over the years,
[23] teaching classes on
congressional investigations, law and technology, legislation, copyright and public-interest law.
[23]
[24] On the Georgetown faculty, Podesta's title is Distinguished Visitor from Practice.
[24]
From 2002 to 2014, Podesta served as a member of the
Constitution Project 's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee.
[25] In 2008, he authored The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, and Our Country . In 2009, he accompanied Bill Clinton to
North Korea for negotiations securing the release of
two American journalists imprisoned on
espionage charges. He can be seen in numerous widely circulated photographs of Clinton meeting with
Kim Jong-il .
[26]
Podesta opposes the excessive use of
classification , and in a 2004 speech at
Princeton University condemned what he called the U.S.'s "excessive government secrecy" and "bloated secrecy bureaucracy".
[27]
President Obama holds a meeting with John Podesta and
Susan Rice aboard
Air Force One , 2015
Podesta has called
Executive Order 12958 , "which set tough standards for classifying documents and led to the unprecedented effort to declassify millions of pages from our nation's diplomatic and national security history," as "perhaps the biggest accomplishment of the Clinton administration."
[27] More than 800 million pages of intelligence documents were declassified as part of the program.
[28]
Podesta is described as "a longtime advocate for government
disclosure of
UFO files."
[29] Podesta has supported petitions by some who believe UFOs are alien spacecraft to the government to release files related to the subject. At a 2002 news conference organized by
Coalition for Freedom of Information Podesta stated that, "It is time for the government to declassify records that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists with data that will assist in determining the real nature of this phenomenon."
[30]
Podesta wrote the foreword for a book by
Leslie Kean titled "UFOs- Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On The Record". The book details numerous contact events by these trained personnel.
[31]
John Podesta testifies before the
Senate Budget Committee Task Force on Government Performance.
Podesta became an honorary patron of the
University Philosophical Society in March 2006. Podesta is an emeritus member of the Knox College Board of Trustees.
[32]
Podesta has served on the board of directors of
Bedford, Massachusetts –based energy company
Joule Unlimited since January 2011.
[33]
[34] He has also served on the board of the
Portland, Oregon -based Equilibrium Capital. In 2013, Podesta earned $90,000 as a consultant to the
West Chester, Pennsylvania -based HJW Foundation, a nonprofit group led by Swiss billionaire
Hansjörg Wyss .
[33] He was the U.S. representative to the UN High-Level Panel on the
Post-2015 Development Agenda .
[35]
After the 2016 election, Podesta joined
The Washington Post as a columnist.
[36] Podesta also sits on the steering committee of the
China–United States Exchange Foundation .
[37]
On September 2, 2022, President
Joe Biden appointed Podesta as
senior advisor to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation.
[38]
[39]
[40] In this role, Podesta will oversee the $370–783 billion climate investment authorized by the
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , which was passed the previous month.
[41]
[5]
[6]
Personal email leak
On October 7, 2016,
WikiLeaks started to publish thousands of emails reportedly retrieved from Podesta's private
Gmail account, some of which contained controversial material regarding Clinton's positions or campaign strategy.
[42] Podesta and the Clinton campaign did not confirm or deny the authenticity of the emails.
[43]
[44] Experts investigating the leak, including a private security firm called
Secureworks , claimed that a Russian hacking group named
Fancy Bear gained access to Podesta's account through
phishing .
[45] Podesta said that Russian intelligence officials attempting to influence the presidential election in favor of
Donald Trump were behind the leak.
[42]
The
United States Intelligence Community released a statement directly accusing Russian intelligence of involvement.
[46]
[47]
[48]
[49] Vice President
Joe Biden told
NBC News that the United States was "sending a message" to Russian President
Vladimir Putin and that a wide-ranging "clandestine" cyber operation would take place in response to the Russians' activities.[
citation needed ] When asked about the leaks, Putin replied that claims of Russian involvement were false. "The hysteria is merely caused by the fact that somebody needs to divert the attention of the American people from the essence of what was exposed by the hackers."
[50]
[51]
Personal life
John Podesta is Catholic and has worked with
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and
Catholics United .
[52]
[53]
He and his wife Mary Podesta, a Washington, D.C. attorney, married in 1978 and have three children.
[54]
[55] His daughter, Megan Rouse, was the president of the
Dublin Unified School District (CA) Board of Trustees.
[56]
[57] Podesta is an avid cook.
[58]
See also
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