November 20, 2008 Obama
Forms Seven Working Groups;
Sonal Shah on Tech Panel By Arun Kumar
Washington
Indian-American Sonal Shah, who heads Google.org's global
development efforts, has been included in a three-member panel that
will craft the hi-tech policy priorities of US president-elect
Barack Obama's administration.
Shah has been included in a Working Group on Technology, Innovation
& Government Reform, one of the seven set up "to develop the
priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for
action during the Obama-Biden Administration".
The other six Policy Working Groups will focus on: Economy,
Education, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Immigration, and
National Security.
Besides Shah, the technology group includes Blair Levin, a managing
director of Stifel Nicolaus who serves as the firm's principal
telecom, media and tech regulatory and strategy analyst, and Julius
Genachowski, co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox
Digital, a special advisor at General Atlantic, and a member of
various boards of directors and advisors.
A member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project Advisory Board, Shah
heads Google.org's global development efforts. Prior to joining
Google, she was vice president at Goldman, Sachs and Co. developing
and implementing the firm's environmental policy.
She is also the co-founder of Indicorps, a US-based non-profit
organisation offering one-year fellowships Indian-Americans to work
on development projects in India.
Shah also worked at the Centre for American Progress on trade,
outsourcing and post conflict issues and the Centre for Global
Development on development policy issues.
Other panels are:
Economy: Daniel K. Tarullo, Professor of Law at Georgetown
University. He teaches and writes in the areas of banking law,
international economic regulation and economic policymaking.
From 1993 to 1998 he was, successively, Assistant Secretary of State
for Economic and Business Affairs, Deputy Assistant to the President
for Economic Policy, and Assistant to the President for
International Economic Policy.
Education: Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of
Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford
Centre for Opportunity Policy in Education and the School Redesign
Network.
Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school
reform, teaching quality and educational equity.
Energy and Environment: Carol M. Browner, the longest serving
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who served
from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, she served as Florida Secretary of
the Environment.
Browner is a founder and principal of The Albright Group LLC, a
global strategy firm and of Albright Capital Management, an
investment advisory firm that focuses on emerging markets.
Health Care: Former Senate majority leader Senator Tom Daschle, an
advisor to the law firm of Alston and Bird, where he provides
strategic advice on public policy issues such as climate change,
energy, health care, trade, financial services, and
telecommunications.
Immigration: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean of the Georgetown
University Law Centre and Executive Vice President of Georgetown
University since July 2004, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar,
Professor and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law
School.
National Security: James B. Steinberg, dean of the LBJ School of
Public Affairs and a former Deputy National Security Advisor to
President Clinton (1996-2000).
Also on the panel is Susan E. Rice, who served most recently as a
Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign
while on leave from the Brookings Institution where she is a Senior
Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development
Programmes. Rice currently serves on the Obama-Biden Transition
Project Advisory Board.
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