Neera Tanden is a political consultant who serves as Domestic Policy Advisor to President Joe Biden. Previously, she was a senior advisor and staff secretary in the White House. She has served in both the Obama and Clinton administrations, as well as presidential campaigns and think tanks.

Prior to her roles in the Biden-Harris Administration, Tanden was the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, one of the largest think tanks in the country, with teams across all components of domestic policy including crime, education, immigration, health care, civil rights, and more. As President of CAP, Tanden drove ideas that became part of the Biden-Harris agenda: proposals on clean energy subsidies, a new child care program, and closing the “boyfriend loophole” on guns.

Tanden previously served as senior advisor for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, working on President Barack Obama’s health reform team in the White House. Prior to that, she was the director of domestic policy for the Obama-Biden presidential campaign, where she managed all domestic policy proposals. She also served as policy director for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, where Tanden directed all policy work, ranging from domestic policy to the economy to foreign affairs, and managed day-to-day policy announcements. She received her BS from UCLA and her JD from Yale Law School.

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