Margaret Sullivan

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Margaret C. Sullivan (born 1962) served as the Chief of Staff to three U.S. Cabinet members. She worked as the Special Assistant to Defense Secretary William Perry, Chief of Staff to the United States Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, and as Chief of Staff and Secretary's Representative for California to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo.[1][2][3]

She currently serves as the Director of Political Risk Analysis for Farallon Capital Management.[4]

Early career and education

Originally from California, Sullivan graduated with a degree in political science from Stanford University and was a MacArthur Fellow at the University of Maryland where she earned a master's degree in public management.[5]

Upon graduation, Sullivan worked as a legislative assistant for Senator Gary Hart from 1984-1987. After she served as Congressman Nicholas Mavroules' representative to the Armed Services Committee. She also worked on the staff of House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 1991 and as a senior policy advisor to House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt from 1992-1994.[6]

Political career

Defense

Sullivan began working as the Special Assistant, the civilian equivalent to the Chief of Staff, to Defense Secretary William Perry in 1994 where she managed the Secretary's relationship with the press corps, the White House and the United States Congress.[7]

The press debacle during the Somalia operations of the early 1990s,[8] the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle and the widespread adoption of the internet forced the military to alter its interaction with the press corps around military operations.[9] Sullivan and White House advisor David Gergen coordinated the Defense Department and the U.S. military's interaction with the media during the invasion of Haiti.[10][11][12] To protect the lives of U.S. soldiers and ensure the military's strategy was accurately understood by the media, Sullivan coordinated conference calls between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the network bureau chiefs to brief the media on what the military expected to happen each day in Haiti.[13][14] According to the McCormick Tribune Foundation, this more open model of communication between the press and the military is now commonplace.[15]

Sullivan also helped manage the reorganization of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), the agency that provides finance and accounting services for the civil and military members of the Department. In the mid-1990s, the agency allowed municipalities to bid on where the Department would operate DFAS centers. Today, the DFAS operates in 13 cities throughout the United States.[16]

Trade Representative

Sullivan served as the Chief of Staff to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) Charlene Barshefsky from 1996 to 1997.[17] There she oversaw the day-to-day operations of the office and developed negotiation and lobbying strategies for granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations status, the 1996 Telecommunications Agreement, and the enforcement measures for the Intellectual Trade Agreement of 1996.

Sullivan helped lead the White House’s effort to gain Congressional approval of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status, which had been a contentious issue in Congress for many years.[18] The passage of Congressional legislation granting China PNTR status cleared the final hurdle for China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2000 and the opening of the country to the world.[19][20] According to the International Monetary Fund, China's GDP has grown at an average rate of 9.9% since being accepted to the WTO.[21]

In her role as Chief of Staff, Sullivan helped manage the USTR office’s role in negotiating the 1996 WTO Telecommunications Agreement which opened worldwide telecommunication markets to competition and set the rules that governed the emerging wireless, cable and fixed-line communications market. The Institute for International Economic estimated the agreement would save consumers $1 trillion by 2010.[22][23][24]

Housing and Urban Development

Sullivan was appointed to Housing and Urban Development Chief of Staff by Secretary Andrew Cuomo in 1997.[25]

In 1997, Sullivan contributed to HUDs effort to stop bad landlords from taking advantage of federal assistance intended for low income housing.[26][27]

In 1998, she served as the Clinton Administration’s Housing & Urban Development west coast representative. There she managed HUD operational activities throughout the California.

Farallon Capital Management

Sullivan serves as the Director of Political Risk Analysis for Farallon Capital Management, an investment firm with over $20 billion in aggregate capital. Farallon was founded by Tom Steyer in 1986.[28] Her role includes identifying and tracking market opportunities created by regulatory and legislative changes within state and federal governments. She also manages Farallon's communication strategy.[29]

Political activism

In 2007, Sullivan was part of "The Lincoln Brigade", a Democratic Party task force to kill the California Presidential Electoral College Reform Initiative, a proposed ballot measure that would have appeared on the June 2008 California ballot. The Republican sponsored measure, if passed, would have changed the way California allocates its presidential electoral votes in time for the 2008 presidential election.

She contributed and raised money for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign.[30]

Sullivan is also the co-chair of the steering committee of the No on Proposition 23 campaign, an effort to save California's clean energy and air pollution control standards.

Community involvement

She is on the Board of the OneCalifornia Bank, Oakland, California-based community development bank. The Bank functions as a regulated financial institution, but provides commercial banking services to underserved small and medium-size businesses, nonprofits, affordable-housing developers, community facilities, as well as families and individuals in the Bay Area.[31]

Awards

Sullivan received the Secretary of Defense’s Distinguished Service Award in 1996.[32]

Personal life

Sullivan lives in San Francisco, California.

See also

Farallon Capital Management
Tom Steyer

References

  1. ↑ "CUOMO APPOINTS MARGARET SULLIVAN AS HUD CHIEF OF STAFF". U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 1997-05-04. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  2. ↑ "Plum Book". Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Government Reform. 1996 Edition. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  3. ↑ Marinucci, Carla (2007-10-07 Edition). "State Dem group played hardball to kill GOP election system plan". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  4. ↑ http://www.faralloncapital.com/farallon/professionals_margaret_sullivan.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.onecalbank.com/ContentPage.aspx?name=biomsullivan.aspx
  6. ↑ HUD News Release
  7. ↑ Marinucci, p1
  8. ↑ Goodman, Walter (1992-12-08). "Critic's Notebook; Re Somalia: How Much Did TV Shape Policy?". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  9. ↑ Stockwell, David (1995). "Press Coverage in Somalia: A Case for Media Relations to be a Principle of Operations Other Than War". Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  10. ↑ Kelly, Michael (1994-10-31). "David Gergen, Master of THE GAME". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  11. ↑ Greenhouse, Steven (1994-11-04). "Gergen Has Given White House Formal Resignation, Aides Say". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  12. ↑ Sciolino, Elaine (1994-09-20). "MISSION TO HAITI: DIPLOMACY; On the Brink of War, a Tense Battle of Wills". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  13. ↑ Carter, Bill (September 18, 1994). "SHOWDOWN WITH HAITI; TV Ready for Battle, With High-Tech Access". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  14. ↑ Tierney, John (September 20, 1994). "MISSION TO HAITI: NEWS MEDIA MEDIA WATCH; 'The Press Was Here,' But Not The Enemy". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  15. ↑ "The Military-Media Relationship 2005". McCormick Tribune Foundation. 2005. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  16. ↑ Keating, Edward (September 20, 1994). "Improving the Defense Finance and Accounting Service's Interaction with Its Customers". RAND Corporation. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  17. ↑ "Plum Book". Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Government Reform. 1996 Edition. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  18. ↑ Pregelj, Vladimir N. (2001-06-07). "Most-Favored-Nation Status of the People’s Republic of China". Congressional Research Service. Retrieved 2009-08-13. 
  19. ↑ "THE CHINA TRADE VOTE; Roll-Call on China Trade". New York Times. 2000-05-26. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  20. ↑ Lardy, Nicholas (2000-05-01). "Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China". Brookings Institute. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  21. ↑ "World Economic Outlook Database". International Monetary Fund. 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  22. ↑ Andrews, Edmund (February 16, 1997). "68 NATIONS AGREE TO WIDEN MARKETS IN COMMUNICATIONS". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  23. ↑ "Unofficial Transcript: Barshefsky on WTO Ministerial". 1996. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  24. ↑ HUD News Release
  25. ↑ http://www.ncdaonline.org/members/reps97/rep620.htm
  26. ↑ "HUD TELLS BAD LANDLORDS: YOUR LEASE IS UP". United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. 1997-04-25. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  27. ↑ Janofsky, Michael (1997-04-25). "HUD Suspends Lax Landlord Of Thousands". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-23. 
  28. ↑ http://www.faralloncapital.com/farallon/professionals_margaret_sullivan.htm
  29. ↑ http://www.onecalbank.com/ContentPage.aspx?name=biomsullivan.aspx
  30. ↑ Huffington Post http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Sullivan&fname=Margaret |url= missing title (help). 
  31. ↑ http://www.onecalbank.com/boardofdirectors.aspx
  32. ↑ http://www.onecalbank.com/ContentPage.aspx?name=biomsullivan.aspx
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