Jeff Zients

Jeff Zients will take over as the White House faces a slew of congressional investigations. Also looming: the special counsel probe into classified ...

David Cohen, a political scientist at the University of Akron who studies chiefs of staff, said Klain uses Twitter to defend and promote his boss. Biden was on his way to the UN climate summit in Glasgow, empty-handed, when Whipple visited Klain at the White House. "There's a reason why the average tenure of a White House chief is 18 months," Whipple said. "And that's one thing that Ron Klain uses Twitter for." He was also known to run a tight ship with limited leaks. One of those moments came ahead of the 2021 midterm elections, when Biden wanted to "go everywhere and talk about everything, essentially," to try to help his party win, Whipple said. But Klain's wife Monica Medina — a high-ranking State Department official who works on climate and environment portfolios — convinced him to stay on, Whipple said. "Maybe we don't suck as much as people thought," Klain said in that email. Klain felt vindicated by the election results, Whipple said, describing an email he received from the chief of staff at 1:16 a.m. "You have to be able to work closely with the president. Zients, an early hire on Biden's transition team, developed the strategy unveiled on Inauguration Day to get Americans vaccinated for COVID-19. The exact date for the transition is not clear.

President Joe Biden is expected to tap Jeff Zients, ​​who ran the administration's Covid-19 response effort and served in high-ranking roles in the Obama ...

Zients was also an investor in the popular Washington DC deli Call Your Mother and often brought bagels to the office once a week to share with White House staff. Before serving in government, he served as the chairman, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of the Advisory Board Company and chairman of the Corporate Executive Board, both Washington-area consulting firms. Zients was the fix-it man and provided advice to the US Department of Health and Human Services as it worked to resolve the problems. By the time he was 35, he had already landed a spot on Fortune’s list of the richest Americans under 40, ranking 25th with an estimated worth of $149 million after the Advisory Board went public. Another factor in the search was how this stretch of Biden’s presidency will focus on implementing the legislation enacted in his first two years, and Zients is seen internally as a “master implementor,” one source said. But Biden was impressed with his job as the coronavirus response coordinator when Zients inherited what officials described as a “largely dysfunctional” effort by the Trump administration.