Betsy Myers

(announced by KSG on Feb. 13, 2007 but started transitioning to the position on Jan. 19) Previously at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as executive director of the Center for Public Leadership and earlier as director of alumni programs and external relations at the Kennedy School. Senior official in the Clinton Administration. Served two years with the U.S. Small Business Administration as Associate Deputy Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development. Launched and directed the first White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach, serving as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Women's Initiatives, 1995-97. Director at the Office of Women's Business Ownership at the SBA. MPA from the Kennedy School, 2000. Sister of Dee Dee Myers, Clinton's first press secretary.