Jeff Zients

Jeff Zients
31st White House Chief of Staff
Incumbent
Assumed office February 8, 2023
President	Joe Biden
Deputy	Jen O'Malley Dillon Bruce Reed Natalie Quillian Annie Tomasini[a]
Preceded by	Ron Klain
Counselor to the President
In office January 20, 2021 – April 5, 2022 Serving with Steve Ricchetti
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	Hope Hicks Derek Lyons
White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
In office January 20, 2021 – April 5, 2022
President	Joe Biden
Deputy	Natalie Quillian
Preceded by	Deborah Birx
Succeeded by	Ashish Jha
10th Director of the National Economic Council
In office March 5, 2014 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Gene Sperling
Succeeded by	Gary Cohn
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Acting January 27, 2012 – April 24, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Heather Higginbottom
Preceded by	Jack Lew
Succeeded by	Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Acting July 30, 2010 – November 18, 2010
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Jeffrey Liebman
Preceded by	Peter R. Orszag
Succeeded by	Jack Lew
1st Chief Performance Officer of the United States
In office June 19, 2009 – October 16, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Beth Cobert
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget for Management
In office June 19, 2009 – October 16, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Clay Johnson III
Succeeded by	Beth Cobert
Personal details
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 (/ˈzaɪənts/; 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]

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