David Axelrod
Founding Director of the Institute of Politics.
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Founding Director of the Institute of Politics.
Member, U.S. Congress (D-TX)
Partner, Precision Strategies
Former Deputy Campaign Manager for Barack
Obama
Former Member, U.S. Congress (R-IL) Partner, Forbes Tate
Senior Counsel, Bully Pulpit Interactive Former White House Press Secretary
Senior Executive Vice President, AT&T Former RNC Chairman
Partner & CEO, AKPD Message and Media
Biographer, Historian, and Political Commentator
Former Member, U.S. Senate (D-ND) Co-founder and Chair of the One Country Project
Editor-at-Large, The Bulwark Founder, The Weekly Standard
Co-Chair, Building America’s Future Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Executive Chairman, Exile Content Studio
Senior Counselor, Beacon Global Strategies Former Acting Director & Deputy Director, CIA
Former Director of Political Strategy for UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Executive Vice President for Public Affairs, Columbia University Former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama
Co-director, USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future Republican Strategist
Co-founder, The Shawmut Group Former Senior Advisor to U.S. Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
Former South Carolina State Representative
Vice President for Programs and Strategy, the Joyce Foundation
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times
Political Columnist, The Washington Post
National Editor, The Cook Political Report
Senior Advisor, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Global Public Policy Manager, Snap, Inc.