DJ Obama Unveils Transition Teams For SEC, Other Agencies.
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--President-elect Barack Obama's transition team Friday unveiled teams of high-powered executives and former government officials to review the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Energy and other critical federal agencies in the run up to the inauguration.
-The president-elect's transition office said former Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Gary Gensler will lead the review of the SEC. Gensler, a former Goldman Sachs partner, was an adviser to Sen. Paul Sarbanes on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
-The SEC team also will include former Federal Trade Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson and McKinsey & Co. partner William "Thomas" Dohrmann.
-Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the global development program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will lead the team reviewing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., while James Johnson, a partner at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton and a former Clinton-era Treasury official, will lead the team reviewing the Commodities Future Trading Commission.
-The team reviewing the Department of Energy will be led by Elgie Holstein, a senior energy policy advisor to Obama, Elizabeth Montoya, a consultant with Sealaska Corp. in Juneau, Alaska, and Sue Tierney, a managing principal at Analysis Group. All three held posts in the Clinton administration.
-The teams are expected to begin their work immediately so senior appointees can hit the ground running at their departments as soon as they are sworn in.
The list of agency review teams can be viewed by clicking: http://change.gov/agencyreviewteams.
-By Henry J. Pulizzi, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-9256; henry.pulizzi@dowjones.com
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