Senior Advisor

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Senior Advisor is a title used within the Executive Branch of the United States Government for various positions.

In the Executive Office of the President of the United States, the title has been used in two different capacities:

• In the George W. Bush administration, it is a formal position, currently held by Karl Rove, in the newly created Office of the Senior Advisor to the President. It has responsibility for the following four groups:
  • White House Office of Strategic Initiatives
  • Intergovernmental Affairs
  • Political Affairs
  • Public Liaison
• In prior administrations, the position of "senior advisor" was a title used for various U.S. presidential advisors.

Numerous examples of the position also exist throughout the Executive Departments and in the branch's independent agencies. For example, the FDA includes a position called the Senior Advisor for Science. The Department of the Interior includes, for example, a Senior Advisor for Alaskan Affairs.

[edit] External links

• Office of the Senior Advisor to the President, from a website of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
• Office of the Senior Advisor to the (NASA) Administrator