President Biden announced Jeff Zients as his next White House chief of staff, tapping an experienced technocrat who headed his administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Zients succeeds Ron Klain, a longtime fixture in Biden’s political orbit.
and served as director of the National Economic Council during the Obama administration and acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Although Zients left the administration in April 2022, he quietly returned in recent months to ensure the remaining two years of Biden’s term would be adequately staffed, a prelude to his taking on the much broader managerial role.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
In the private sector, Zients served as top executive at the Advisory Board Co., a Washington consulting firm, and he maintains close relations with the business community. He’s worth between about $90 million and $400 million, according to the financial disclosure he filed when he entered the White House in 2021.“I respect him enormously,” Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who spoke regularly with Zients during his stint as COVID-19 response coordinator, said this week. “He’s a very bright guy.
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