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Economics team bios

November 25, 2008 at 2:44AM

LAWRENCE SUMMERS

Post: Director of National Economic Council

Age: 53. Born Nov. 30, 1954, in New Haven, Conn.

Experience: Managing director, D. E. Shaw Group, since 2006; president, Harvard University, 2001-2006; treasury secretary, 1999-2001; deputy treasury secretary, 1995; undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs, 1993-1995; chief economist, World Bank, 1991-1993; professor of economics, Harvard University, 1983-1993; domestic policy economist, President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, 1982-1983; MIT faculty, 1979-1982.

Education: B.S., MIT, 1975; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982

Family: Married to Elisa New. He has three children with his first wife, Victoria Perry.

MELODY BARNES

Post: Director of White House Domestic Policy Council

Age: 44. Born April 29, 1964, in Richmond, Va.

Experience: A co-director on the Obama-Biden transition team, 2008; senior domestic policy adviser, Obama campaign, 2008; executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress, 2004-2008; principal, the Raben Group, LLC, 2003-2005; chief counsel to Sen. Edward Kennedy, 1995-2003; director of legislative affairs for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; assistant counsel to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights.

Education: Bachelor's degree, University of North Carolina, 1986; law degree, University of Michigan, 1989.

CHRISTINA D. ROMER

Post: Chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers

Age: 49. Born Dec. 25, 1958, in Alton, Ill.

Experience: Professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley, since 1993; associate professor of economics, UC-Berkeley, 1990-1993; acting associate professor of Economics, UC, Berkeley, 1988-1990; professor of economics and public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1985-1988.

Education: Bachelor's degree, College of William and Mary, 1981; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985.

Family: Husband, David Romer, a UC-Berkeley economics professor; and three children.

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TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Post: Treasury Secretary

Age: 47, born Aug. 18, 1961, in New York City.

Experience: CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, since 2003; senior fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations, February to August 2001; director of the Policy Development and Review Department of the IMF, 2001-2003; under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, 1998-2001; Treasury Department posts, 1988-1998; Kissinger Associates Inc., 1985-1988.

Education: B.A., government and Asian studies, Dartmouth College, 1983; M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1985.

Family: Wife, Carole Sonnenfeld Geithner; two children.