Obama puts Romer, Barnes to senior White House posts

Source: Xinhua | 11-25-2008 08:44

CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday put University of California professor Christina Romer and his campaign aide Melody Barnes on senior White House posts.

Romer was named Director of the Council of Economic Advisors by Obama at a press conference in Chicago.

Romer is the Class of 1957 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught and researched since 1988.

Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, Romer was an assistant professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Romer is co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visiting scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Melody C. Barnes was named Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Barnes is co-director of the Agency Review Working Group for the Obama-Biden Transition Team, and served as the Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to Obama for America.

She previously served as Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress and as chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee from December 1995 until March 2003.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei