Melody Barnes Bio, Christina Romer Bio,

Obama Names Melody Barnes, Christina Romer to Economic Team

Melody Barnes Bio
Melody Barnes a U.S. lawyer. She is Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress. She is also on the advisory board for president-elect Barack Obama's presidential transition team, and was named to be Obama's Director of the Domestic Policy Council on November 24th, 2008.

She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Constitution Project. She received her law degree from the University of Michigan and her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated with honors in history.

From 1995 to 2003 Barnes served as chief counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

She previously served as the Director of Legislative Affairs for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and as assistant counsel to the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties..

Barnes began her career as an attorney with Shearman & Sterling.


Christina Romer Bio
She is a former vice president of the American Economic Association, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship recipient, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a winner of the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Romer is co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee.

In 2008, the economics department of Harvard University voted to offer her a tenure-track position, along with her husband David Romer, but Harvard President Drew Faust vetoed Christina's appointment (but not David's). David refused to accept the solo offer. Faust's decision to veto Romer's appointment was widely criticized. David Warsh, an economics journalist wrote, "By any measure, Mrs. Romer is one of the most distinguished women in economics." '"Early onset Alzheimer's" is the kindest explanation I have heard from anyone currently in Cambridge,' wrote Romer colleague Brad DeLong. "Harvard would seem to have a great deal of egg on its face right now," commented Portfolio's Felix Salmon.


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