Obama Brings Back Clinton-era Advisors to Lead on Tech and Science

The "Leadership" page on the Office and Science and Technology Policy's website is still as blank as a AIG's "Good Stuff That Happened This Year" annual report section (zing!), but Think Progress' Brad Johnson reports that OSTP is indeed starting to staff up. Two veterans of the Clinton Administration will be headed to OSTP to serve as advisors to the Obama White House. The OSTP is expected to be the home base of the eventual CTO, though who that might be is still a mystery.

Here's who's headed to OSTP:

Thomas Kalil will serve as OSTP Associate Director for Policy. Kalil previously served President Clinton as Deputy Assistant for Technology and Economic Policy, as well as in the capacity of Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council. In between his White House gigs, Kalil has served as the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley (where he ran the Big Ideas @ Berkeley program), as an industry consultant, and as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. [Kalil's LittleSis profile]

And Jim Kohlenberger will serve as OSTP Chief of Staff. Kohlenberger served as senior domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore and hand a hand in the creation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. In between White House stints, Kohlenberger has worked as executive director of the Voice on the Net (VON) Coalition and as a senior fellow at the Benton Foundation. [Kohlenberger's LittleSis profile]

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