All the president's Princetonians

Michelle Obama '85 — First Lady — A.B., sociology

Grew up on Chicago’s South Side ... older brother is Craig Robinson ’83, now the head basketball coach at Oregon State ... wrote her senior thesis on “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” ... attended Harvard Law School and met Barack when he was her summer intern at Sidley & Austin ... was VP for community and external affairs at University of Chicago hospitals ... first Princetonian to live in the White House since Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879

Peter Orszag '91 — Director, Office of Management and Budget — A.B., economics

Worked at local technical firms to patent a technique for nuclear fuel reprocessing while at the University ... wrote his thesis on “Congressional Oversight of the Federal Reserve” ... received a Marshall Scholarship and attended the London School of Economics ... worked as a junior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers under the Clinton administration ... was director of the Congressional Budget Office until accepting his post in the Obama administration

Paul Volcker '49 — Chair, Economic Recovery Advisory Board — A.B., Wilson School

Also attended Harvard and the London School of Economics ... served as Treasury Department undersecretary during the Nixon administration ... served as chair of the Federal Reserve under the Carter and Reagan administrations ... helped quell runaway inflation brought on by oil shocks in the 1970s ... was chairman of D.C.-based Group of 30 ... new Economic Recovery Advisory Board will help jumpstart the economy and stabilize financial markets

Lisa Brown '82 — Staff Secretary — A.B., politics

Wrote a 321-page senior thesis on “Judicial Implementation of Mental Health Policy — The Willowbrook Litigation: A Case Study” ... served as legal counsel to Vice President Al Gore from 1991 to 2001 ... was executive director of the American Constitution Society until joining the Obama transition team as co-director of the agency review team ... will be responsible for coordinating all forms of communication to and from the president’s office

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Christopher Lu '88 — Cabinet Secretary — A.B., Wilson School

Was Obama’s classmate at Harvard Law School ... was a senior news editor for The Daily Princetonian while at Princeton ... served on the Democratic staff of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives ... has worked for Obama since he took office as a U.S. senator in 2005, continuing through the presidential campaign as legislative director ... served as the executive director of Obama’s transition team

Elena Kagan '81 — Solicitor General — A.B., history

Attended Oxford on a Sachs Scholarship before attending Harvard Law School ... clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ... began her academic career at the University of Chicago ... worked in various positions in the Clinton White House ... was not confirmed when nominated to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1999 ... has been dean of Harvard Law School since 2003 ... if confirmed, will be the first female solicitor general

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Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 — Head of Policy Planning — A.B., Wilson School

Received a Sachs Scholarship to study at Oxford and attended Harvard Law School ... author of “A New World Order” and “The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World” ... was co-author of the final report of the Princeton Project on National Security ... has been dean of the Wilson School since 2002 ... spent the 2007-08 school year on sabbatical in Shanghai ... she will announce Thursday that she will be leaving the Wilson School for the State Department

Lisa Jackson GS '86 — EPA Administrator — M.S.E., chemical engineering

Born in Philadelphia, adopted as a young child and raised in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward ... spent 16 years working for the EPA in Washington, D.C., and New York ... left EPA to work for and eventually become commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ... was appointed Gov. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.)’s chief of staff in December ... if confirmed, will be the first African-American and third Princetonian to serve as EPA administrator

William Lynn GS '82 — Deputy Secretary of Defense — M.P.A., Wilson School

Received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth and his law degree from Cornell ... served as Pentagon chief financial officer and comptroller in the Clinton administration ... is currently senior vice president of government operations and strategy at the Raytheon Company, a major American defense contractor ... has earned many Department of Defense medals for distinguished public service for his work on improving defense accounting practices

Christina Romer — Chair, Council of Economic Advisers — former economics professor

Was appointed chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers ... is set to co-author the administration’s 2008 recession recovery plan ... received her undergraduate degree from The College of William & Mary in 1981 and her doctorate from MIT in 1985 ... taught economics at Princeton from 1985 to 1988 ... currently an economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley ... recent work focuses on the impact of tax policy on government and economic growth ... also works for the National Bureau of Economic Research as the co-director of the program in monetary economics ... has focused on macroeconomic history throughout her career ... husband David Romer is also an economist at Berkeley

Cecelia Rouse — Member, Council of Economic Advisers — economics professor

Expected to be appointed to Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers ... if confirmed, would be the first African-American to serve on the council ... received her Ph.D. from Harvard ... served on the National Economic Council in 1998-99 ... currently professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton and an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics ... areas of interest include labor economics and the economics of education ... is a founding director of the Princeton University Education Research Section ... is a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on the Transition to Adulthood ... chairs the Committee on Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession for the American Economic Association

Eric Lander '78 — Co-Chair, Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — A.B., mathematics

Named a co-chair of Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technolgoy ... was a Rhodes Scholar and a leader of the Human Genome Project ... wrote for The Daily Princetonian while at Princeton and founded the paper’s opinion poll ... later served on the ‘Prince’s’ board of trustees for a number of years ... founding director of the Broad Institute at MIT ... has taught biology at MIT and Harvard Medical School and economics at Harvard Business School ... elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1997 and the U.S. Institute of Medicine in 1999 ... awarded the Woodrow Wilson Prize for Public Service by Princeton in 1998

Joseph Nye '58 — Ambassador to Japan — A.B., Wilson School

Is Obama’s pick for ambassador to Japan, major news sources have reported ... attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship before receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard ... is a former assistant secretary of defense, national intelligence council chairman and dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard ... is currently University Distinguished Service Professor at the Kennedy School ... he and Wilson School professor Robert Keohane are founders of the theory of neo-liberalism in international relations ... considered the world’s top international relations theorists ... famous for his theory of “soft power”