Fearless Sifting

While she wasn’t selected to be our next chancellor, finalist Rebecca Blank might have a future in the Obama Administration. (and thanks to Erik for finding this)

But equally important indicators of his concern are the advisors he’s surrounded himself with during the long campaign. Here’s some of the folks whom we think might be leading candidates for the transition team or for senior positions in the Obama Administration.  All are top-notch, and all really care.  BTW, in no case has OOTS approached the folks listed below for confirmation; not after one insider responded, “If I told you who was on the transition team, I’d have to kill you.”
Here’s a baker’s dozen of the folks whose names OOTS hears are, or should be in play:

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7. Becky Blank probably isn’t a transition team type, but if the Obama people are smart – and we know they are – Becky will be on the sort list for any number of cabinet or almost-cabinet-level positions in the new administration. Now at Brookings, Becky returns to Washington after a seven-year stint as dean at the Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy in Michigan, where she took a good program and made it great. Prior to moving to Ann Arbor, Blank served on Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors and taught at both Northwestern and Princeton. Arguably the nation’s top labor and poverty economist, Becky (a Spotlight advisor) is one of the folks leading the effort to overhaul the federal poverty measure. Smart betting is that she’ll succeed.