Neera Tanden

Neera Tanden was born on September 10, 1970, in Bedford, Massachusetts, to immigrant parents from India. She has worked on several Democratic presidential campaigns, including those of Michael Dukakis in 1988, Bill Clinton in 1992, and Barack Obama in 2008. She was Hillary Clinton’s policy director for Clinton’s unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination.

About Neera Tanden in brief

Summary Neera TandenNeera Tanden was born on September 10, 1970, in Bedford, Massachusetts, to immigrant parents from India. She has worked on several Democratic presidential campaigns, including those of Michael Dukakis in 1988, Bill Clinton in 1992, and Barack Obama in 2008. She was Hillary Clinton’s policy director for Clinton’s unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination. During the Obama administration, she helped draft the Affordable Care Act. She is the president of the Center for American Progress, where she has served in different capacities since 2003. In October 2011, she succeeded John Podesta as CAP’s president and CEO. On November 30, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would nominate T anden as the next director of the Office of Management and Budget, subject to Senate approval.

Tandon was considered a candidate for a top White House job, had Hillary Clinton won the presidency. In 2018, it emerged that Tandan had revealed the first name of a CAP employee complaining of sexual harassment in April 2016, on April 28, 2020. In one exchange, on August 11, 2015, while discussing news that Harvard University law professor Lawrence Lessig was exploring a bid for a Democratic nomination for the presidential nomination, Tandin wrote of Lessig, “I hate that guy.” In another exchange, Lessig responded to the incident by saying that while he supported whistle blowing and Edward Snowden, he should not have a pardon of Edward Snowden.