American business executive (born 1966)
Jeff Zients
Assumed office February 8, 2023President
Joe Biden Deputy
Jen O'Malley Dillon
Bruce Reed
Natalie Quillian
Annie Tomasini
[a] Preceded by
Ron Klain In office January 20, 2021 – April 5, 2022President Joe Biden Preceded by
Hope Hicks
Derek Lyons In office January 20, 2021 – April 5, 2022President Joe Biden Deputy Natalie Quillian Preceded by
Deborah Birx Succeeded by
Ashish Jha In office March 5, 2014 – January 20, 2017President
Barack Obama Preceded by
Gene Sperling Succeeded by
Gary Cohn Acting January 27, 2012 – April 24, 2013President Barack Obama Deputy
Heather Higginbottom Preceded by
Jack Lew Succeeded by
Sylvia Mathews Burwell Acting July 30, 2010 – November 18, 2010President Barack Obama Deputy
Jeffrey Liebman Preceded by
Peter R. Orszag Succeeded by Jack Lew In office June 19, 2009 – October 16, 2013President Barack Obama Preceded by Position established Succeeded by
Beth Cobert In office June 19, 2009 – October 16, 2013President Barack Obama Preceded by
Clay Johnson III Succeeded by Beth Cobert
Born Jeffrey Dunston Zients
(1966-11-12 ) November 12, 1966 (age 57)
Washington, D.C. , U.S.Political party
Democratic Spouse Mary Menell Education
Duke University (
BA )
Jeffrey Dunston Zients (; born November 12, 1966) is an American business executive and government official, serving as the 31st
White House chief of staff in the administration of
U.S. president
Joe Biden . Earlier in the Biden administration, he served as
counselor to the president and
White House coronavirus response coordinator from January 2021 to April 2022.
[1]
[2]
[3]
During the
presidency of Barack Obama , Zients served as director of the
National Economic Council from February 2014 to January 2017, served as acting director of the
Office of Management and Budget in 2010 and from 2012 to 2013, and led the emergency effort to fix
healthcare.gov after the troubled launch of that critical component of the
Affordable Care Act .
Before entering government, Zients was an executive at firms including the Advisory Board Company and
CEB . Zients joined the Biden administration after taking leave from his position as chief executive officer of Cranemere, an investment firm. He was a member of
Facebook 's board of directors from 2018 to 2020.
[4]
Early life and education
Zients was born in
Washington, D.C. , and raised in
Kensington, Maryland .
[5] His family is
Jewish .
[6]
[7]
[8] Zients graduated from the
St. Albans School in 1984 and earned a
bachelor's degree in political science from
Duke University ,
[9] graduating
summa cum laude in 1988.
[10]
Early business career
After college, Zients worked in management consulting for Mercer Management Consulting (now
Oliver Wyman ) and
Bain & Company . As a consultant, Zients reportedly enjoyed the “culture, teamwork … and analytical rigor".
[11] After management consulting, he was appointed the chief operating officer of DGB Enterprises, a holding company for the Advisory Board Company,
Corporate Executive Board , and
Atlantic Media Company .
[12]
At age 35, Zients was named to
Fortune Magazine's "40 under 40" , with an estimated wealth of $149 million.
[13]
Advisory board and corporate executive board
Zients was the chief operating officer (1996–1998), chief executive officer (1998–2000), and chairman (2001–2004) of the Advisory Board Company and former chairman (2000–2001) of the
Corporate Executive Board .
[14] Zients and
David G. Bradley took each of the companies public through
initial public offerings that made both men
multimillionaires .
[8]
[15]
Portfolio Logic
Zients founded and was the managing partner of Portfolio Logic LLC, an investment firm primarily focused on health care and business services.
[14] He was a member of the board of directors of
XM Satellite Radio until its 2008 merger, and a board member at
Sirius XM Radio until his Senate confirmation.
[11]
[16] Zients also sat on the boards of
Revolution Health Group and Timbuk2 Designs.
[15]
Baseball
In 2005, Zients formed a group with
Colin Powell and
Fred Malek , among others, to compete for the purchase of the
Washington Nationals .
[17]
[18] The group planned for Malek to be the managing partner for the first three years, after which Zients would take over.
[18] The group was unsuccessful; the team was purchased by a group led by
Ted Lerner .
[14]
Obama administration
Office of Management and Budget
In 2009, President
Barack Obama appointed Zients to the new position of
United States chief performance officer and deputy director for management (DDM) of the Office of Management and Budget.
[19]
[20] It was Zients's first governmental experience.
[21]
According to Obama, his assignment was to help "streamline processes, cut costs, and find best practices throughout" the U.S. government.
[20] His nomination was approved by the Senate in June 2009.
[22]
[23] As DDM, Zients established and chaired the
President's Management Council .
[24]
Zients was the acting director of OMB from July 2010 to November 2010, and again from January 2012 to April 2013.
[25]
[26]
[27]
Healthcare.gov
Following the error-plagued launch of
healthcare.gov on October 1, 2013, Obama and White House chief of staff
Denis McDonough asked Zients to take charge of fixing the website.
[28]
[29]
[30]
[31] While leading the "tech surge" to do that, Zients also had an ownership position in
PSA Healthcare . The position of the White House was that Zients's stake in PSA Healthcare, a pediatric home health business, was not a conflict of interest.
[28]
National Economic Council
Zients speaking at White House press briefing on a possible government shutdown, 2011
From 2014 to 2017, Zients was an assistant to the president for economic policy and director of the
National Economic Council (NEC).
[25] Zients also chaired the
President's Management Advisory Board .
[32]
The Wall Street Journal called Zients "a kind of ambassador to the business community",
[11] and lobbying groups such as the
Business Roundtable and the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce praised Zients as someone who heard them out.
[33]
At NEC, Zients worked with the
Department of Labor to finalize the fiduciary rule, also known as the conflict of interest rule. It required financial advisers to provide advice in their clients' best interest. The rule was strongly criticized by Wall Street leaders and business groups and was struck down by a federal appeals court in 2018.
[34]
[33]
In 2015, while NEC director, Zients described the
Trans-Pacific Partnership as "a massive tax cut for American businesses".
[35]
Return to the private sector
Facebook
Zients joined
Facebook 's board of directors in 2018, following the
Cambridge Analytica scandal .
[36] While on Facebook's board, Zients chaired the
Audit and Risk Oversight Committee .
[37]
[38] According to Facebook, he declined to seek re-election in 2020 "to devote more time to his business and other professional interests".
[39] Zients was paid $100,000 in cash and roughly $300,000 in stock in exchange for his work on Facebook's audit committee.
[38] As of December 2020, Zients had reportedly sold all of his holdings of Facebook stock.
[38]
Cranemere
Zients was the CEO of the Wall Street investment firm Cranemere, an investment firm owned by
Vincent Mai , for which he earned a combined salary and bonus of $1.6 million.
[33]
[40] As of December 2020
[update] , Zients was on leave from his position as chief executive officer of Cranemere.
[33]
In addition, Zients was an investor in the D.C.-based bagel deli startup
Call Your Mother .
[41]
Biden administration
Zients at a press briefing with
Anthony Fauci and
Rochelle Walensky in August 2021
In summer 2020, Politico reported that Saguaro Strategies, a media and consulting firm, heavily edited Zients's
Wikipedia article as he became more prominent in the
Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign . For example, Zients had advocated for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which faced left-wing opposition, but the edit gave Zients’s argument that it was "the most progressive trade agreement there’s ever been." It eliminated an Obama official's comment that he thought Zients was a Republican.
[36]
As of October 2020
[update] , Zients was co-chair of the
presidential transition of Joe Biden .
[42] He was described as "an important power center in the Biden transition team" and noted as a candidate for several positions in the incoming administration.
[33] On December 7, 2020, the Biden transition announced Zients's presumptive appointment as coordinator of the COVID-19 response and counselor to the president.
[43] The absence of any comprehensive COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan at the time of the handover from the outgoing Trump administration became an urgent priority for Zients after the inauguration on January 20, 2021.
[44]
In July 2021, Zients came under criticism for delaying the relaxation of travel restrictions between the US and Europe.
[45]
In March 2022, Zients announced he would be leaving the Biden administration in April, to be succeeded as Coronavirus Response Coordinator by
Ashish Jha .
[46]
Zients was mentioned in an
antisemitic flyer that originated in Australia in July 2022. The conspiracy theory posited that he and other Jewish people are part of a
cabal responsible for
COVID and a "COVID agenda".
[47]
On January 22, 2023, it was reported that Zients would replace
Ron Klain as the
White House chief of staff in February.
[1] On February 8, 2023, following
President
Joe Biden 's
State of the Union Address the previous night, Zients took office to become the 31st White House chief of staff.
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^ Succeeded Jen O'Malley Dillon after her departure to join Biden/Harris 2024 campaign.
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