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Louisa Terrell

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Louisa Terrell

  • Former President and Director, White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Administration of President Joe Biden

Louisa Terrell is former president and director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Previously, from 2019 to 2021, Terrell was the deputy general counsel and head of public affairs for McKinsey & Company. From 2017 to 2019, she was the executive director of the Biden Foundation. Her lengthy career in government includes serving as advisor to FCC Chair Tom Wheeler from 2015 to 2017, chief of staff to Senator Cory Booker from 2013 to 2014, special assistant to the president in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs—the office she now runs—from 2009 to 2011, and deputy chief of staff and Judiciary Committee counsel to then-Senator Joe Biden from 2001 to 2008.  Terrell also has spent time at both Facebook and Yahoo. 

Events

Toward a More Responsible and Effective Presidency (Day One)

William Antholis, Don Baer, Peter Baker, Laura Barrón-López, Bob Bauer, Joshua Bolten, Meena Bose, Valerie Smith Boyd, Robert Bruner, Stephen Burns , and more

Leading scholars, journalists, and key practitioners, drawn from both Republican and Democratic administrations, diagnose the problem with the American presidency on day one of this two-day discussion.

9:00am - 2:30pm
Online
Oct
19

Toward a More Responsible and Effective Presidency (Day Two)

William Antholis, Don Baer, Peter Baker, Laura Barrón-López, Bob Bauer, Joshua Bolten, Meena Bose, Valerie Smith Boyd, Robert Bruner, Stephen Burns , and more

Leading scholars, journalists, and key practitioners, drawn from both Republican and Democratic administrations, focus on how to fix problems with the American presidency on day two of this two-day discussion.

9:00am - 2:30pm
Online
Oct
20