Current Position: Chief of Staff to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Boss: U.S. Amb. to the U.N.
Susan Rice (since March 2009)
At a Glance
Current Position: Chief of Staff to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (since March 2009)
Career History: Obama-Biden transition national security adviser; non-proliferation expert, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Energy Department, director, Office of Public Affairs; Senior Director for Public Relations, National Security Council; Deputy Chief of Staff, then-Rep. David Skaggs (D-Colo.)
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Alma Mater: Sarah Lawrence College, B.A., 1986
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Path to Power
Brooke comes from the original Hollywood power couple - she is the granddaughter of Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer. Her father is Richard Anderson, a respected character actor many of us remember as Oscar Goldman from "The Six Million Dollar Man" ("We can do it. We can make you better.")
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Anderson worked at the Nuclear Threat Initiative with Margaret A. Hamburg, who now heads the Obama Food and Drug Administration.
Anderson and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are both alumni of Sarah Lawrence College. He graduated in 1981, she in 1986.