Obama's policy advisors

President-elect Barack Obama has been meeting with advisors on policy in the week and a half since his election victory. The first wartime presidential transition in 40 years has seen John White and Michele Flournoy appointed to lead the Department of Defense Agency Review Team on Barack Obama's transition team. Sarah Sewall will join the Agency Review Working Group responsible for the national security agencies. It remains unclear whether Obama will ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay on as Pentagon chief.

Michele Flournoy, president of the Center for a New American Security says transitions are vulnerable times because political appointees often aren't yet in place, leaving the military to run largely on autopilot. A senior Pentagon official during the Clinton Administration, Flournoy knows that from reviewing what went wrong in Somalia that led to the disaster known as "Black Hawk Down."

John P. White, chair of the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative, served as deputy secretary of defense in the Clinton administration and will now be heading Obama's Pentagon Review Team. Sarah Sewall, another Kennedy School professor who heads the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, to be a member of the transition's Agency Review Working Group. That element is tasked with coordinating and reviewing the work of the various transition teams and she will be responsible for national security issues. A former foreign policy adviser to then-Sen. George Mitchell of Maine, Sewall also served as assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton years. Both the Pentagon team and review group will be in place by the end of the week, according to Obama's transition office.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon will give President-elect Barack Obama's transition team a rundown of "key decision points" it will face in his first 90 days as commander in chief, a senior official said yesterday.

The following is a more complete list of the individuals who have been actively involved as policy advisers to President-Elect Obama.

General
Rep. Rahm Emmanuel, new White House Chief of Staff
Robert Gibbs, new White House Press Secretary
Former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD)
Illinois Senior Senator and Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-IL)
David Axelrod, Senator Obama's Chief Campaign Strategist
Transition Team:
John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and Co-Chair of the Obama Transition Team
Pete Rouse, Obama's Senate Office Chief of Staff
Valerie Jarrett, close friend and adviser from Chicago and Co-Chair of the Obama Transition Team
Jim Messina, former Deputy Director of the Obama for President Campaign, former Chief of Staff to Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Personnel Director for the Obama Transition Team
Cassandra Q. Butts, Obama Transition Team General Counsel
Penny Pritzker, fellow Chicagoan and serving as a Member of the Obama Economic Transition Team

Governors of Interest
Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ)
Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA)
Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM), former presidential candidate and Clinton's Secretary of Energy and Ambassador to the United Nations
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS)

Economic Advisors
Lael Brainard, former Clinton White House Deputy National Economic Advisor
Investor Warren Buffett
Michael Froman, former Treasury Chief of Staff
New York City Fed President Timothy Geithner
Campaign advisors Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman
Former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
Former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers
Daniel Tarullo, former Assistant to President Clinton for International Economic Policy
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker

Energy and Environment Advisors
Julie Anderson, formerly with the Clinton Administration
Carol Browner, former U.S. EDP Administrator
Bradley Campbell, former Commissioner of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection
Jason Grumet of the Bipartisan Policy Center and the National Commission on Energy Policy
Elgie Holstein, who served in Clinton's Commerce and Energy Departments
Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, Public Policy, and Nuclear Engineering at the University of California (Berkeley)
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Environmental lawyer and son of the late Attorney General
Howard Learner, executive director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center (Chicago)
Frank Loy, environmental consultant
Katie McGinty, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Mary Nichols Head of the California Air Resources Board
Robert Sussman, former U.S. EPA Deputy Administrator
Heather Zichal, formerly with Senator Kerry (D-MA)

Advisors on Health Care
Stuart Altman, Dean of Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management
David Blumenthal, Director of the Institute of Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard professor
David Cutler, served on Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council

Advisors on Technology/Telecommunications
Vint Cerf, Google Vice President
Julius Genachowski, co-founder of LaunchBoxDigital and former Chief Counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt
Former FCC Chairmen Reed Hundt and William Kennard
Larry Strickland, former FCC Bureau Chief

National Security Advisors
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
Former Senator David Boren (current President of the University of Oklahoma)
Gregory Craig, former Clinton Special Counsel
Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher
Richard Danzig, Secretary of the Navy under Clinton
Tony Lake, former Clinton National Security Advisor
Former Senator Sam Nunn
Susan Rice, former Clinton Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Jim Steinberg, former Clinton Deputy National Security Advisor
General Anthony Zinni