WEB DESK: US President-elect Joe Biden has filled out his economics and communications teams, enlisting women from different races. In a move that reflected his campaign pledge to create an administration that presents a diverse face to America as it tackles twin pandemic and economic crises.
Biden is expected to nominate Neera Tanden, the chief executive of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, as director of the influential Office of Management and Budget.
Tanden, whose parents immigrated from India, would be the first woman of color to oversee the agency.
The president-elect will also appoint Princeton University labor economist Cecilia Rouse as chair of the three-member Council of Economic Advisers, with economists Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey serving as the other members.
Rouse, who is African American, would be the first woman of color to chair the council, which will play a key role in advising the president on the economy which has been ailing since the pandemic struck the country, throwing tens of millions out of work.
Joe Biden earlier named economist Janet Yellen as his treasury secretary.
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Jennifer Psaki, a veteran Democratic spokeswoman, will be Biden’s White House press secretary, one of seven women who will fill the upper ranks of his administration’s communications staff.
In addition, Biden’s election campaign manager Kate Bedingfield will serve as communications director as the head of an all-female communications team, when Biden takes office on Jan.20, 2021.