TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TRANSITION

White House

  • Senior Advisor: Jared Kushner (Trump Son in Law)
  • Chief of Staff: Reince Preibus (Republican National Committee (RNC))
  • Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor: Steve Bannon (Breitbart News)
  • Counselor to the President: Kellyanne Conway (The Polling Company)
  • Director of the National Economic Council: Gary Cohn (Goldman Sachs)
  • Assistant to the President and Director of Trade and Industrial Policy: Dr. Peter Navarro (UC-Irvine)
    • Note: Dr. Navarro will lead the newly-formed National Trade Council, which is intended to: advise the president on innovative strategies in trade negotiations; coordinate with other agencies to assess US manufacturing capabilities and the defense industrial base; help match unemployed American workers with new opportunities in the skilled manufacturing sector; and lead the Buy America, Hire America program
  • Special Adviser to the President on Regulatory Reform: Carl Icahn (Icahn Enterprises)
    • Note: Icahn will be advising the president in his individual capacity and will not be serving as a federal employee or a special government employee, and will not have specific duties
  • Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism: Thomas Bossert (Deputy Homeland Security Adviser to George W. Bush)
    • Note: President-elect Trump has elevated this position and restored its independent status alongside the National Security Advisor.  Bossert will focus on domestic security priorities while Gen. Flynn will focus on international threats
  • Special Representative for International Negotiations: Jason Greenblatt (The Trump Organization)
  • Assistant to the President and Press Secretary: Sean Spicer (RNC)
  • Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Communications: Hope Hicks
  • Assistant to the President and Director of CommunicationsJason Miller has vacated
  • Assistant to the President and Director of Social Media: Dan Scavino
  • Scheduler to the Vice President-elect: Sarah Makin (Wise Public Affairs)
  • White House and Transition Team General Counsel: Don McGahn (Jones Day, former SEC Commissioner under George W. Bush)
  • Landing Team:
    • Rick Dearborn (Chief of Staff to Sen. Jeff Sessions)
    • Katie Walsh (RNC)
    • Sean Cairncross (RNC)
    • Josh Pitcock (Trump for America)
    • Jennifer Pavlick (Trump for America)
    • Marcia Lee Kelly (Trump for America)
    • Joseph Hagin (Command Consulting)

Transition Team Executive Committee and Leadership Staff

  • Executive Team Executive Director: Rick Dearborn
  • Vice Chairs:
    • Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
    • Housing and Urban Development Secretary Nominee Dr. Ben Carson 
    • New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
    • Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin
    • Incoming National Security Adviser Lt. General Michael Flynn (retired, US Army)
    • Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Newt Gingrich
    • Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
    • Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
    • Incoming Deputy National Security Advisor Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland
    • Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY)
    • Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
    • Attorney General Nominee US Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
    • US Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)
  • Transition Team Executive Committee:
    • Congressman Lou Barletta (R-PA)
    • Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi
    • Congressman Chris Collins (R-NY)
    • Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI)
    • Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
    • Jared Kushner (Kushner Companies)
    • Congressman Tom Marino (R-PA)
    • Rebekah Mercer (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research)
    • Treasury Secretary Nominee Steven Mnuchin (Dune Capital Management)
    • Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA)
    • Congressman Dennis Ross (R-FL)
    • Anthony Scaramucci (SkyBridge Capital)
    • Pastor Darrell Scott (New Spirit Revival Ministries)
    • Kiron Skinner (Hoover Institution/ Carnegie Mellon University)
    • Peter Thiel (Founders Fund)
    • Congresswoman Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-American Samoa)
    • Former US Representative John Sweeney (R-NY)
    • Sheriff Butch Anderson (Dutchess County, NY)
    • Safra Catz (Oracle)
    • Tom Dadey (Dadey Insurance and Onondaga County, NY Republican Party)
    • Nick Langworthy (Erie County, NY Republican Party)
    • Mike McCormack (Dutchess County, NY Republican Party)
    • Joseph Mondello (Nassau County, NY Republican Party)
    • Omarosa Manigault (Trump Campaign, Reality TV)
    • Donald Trump Jr.
    • Eric Trump
    • Ivanka Trump
    • Reince Priebus
    • Stephen Bannon
  • Transition Team Leadership Staff:
    • Senior Advisor, Vice President-elect Pence: Nick Ayers (Target Enterprises)
    • Senior Advisor: Kellyanne Conway (The Polling Company)
    • Deputy Executive Director: David Bossie (Citizens United)
    • Advance Lead: Aaron Chang (Huckabee for President)
    • Director of Rapid Response: Steven Cheung (Ultimate Fighting Championship)
    • Executive Director: Rick Dearborn (Sen. Jeff Sessions)
    • Senior Advisor: A.J. Delgado (Mediate Columnist)
    • Special Advisor for Operations: Jeff DeWit (Arizona State Treasurer)
    • Deputy Communications Director: Jessica Ditt (Office of Kentucky Gov. Bevin)
    • Director of Advance: George Gigicos (Telion Corp)
    • Special Advisor for Operations: Michael Glassner (C&M Transcontinental)
    • Press Director: Stephanie Grisham (Arizona State House)
    • National Press Secretary: Hope Hicks (The Trump Organization)
    • General Counsel: Don McGahn (Jones Day)
    • Communications Director: Sean Spicer (RNC)
    • National Policy Director: Stephen Miller (Office of Sen. Jeff Sessions)
    • Senior Advisor: Katrina Pierson (Tea Party activist)
    • Senior Advisor, Vice President-elect Pence: Josh Pitcock (federal lobbyist for Indiana)
    • Director of Social Media: Dan Scavino (The Trump Organization)
    • Senior Advisor, Vice President-elect Pence: Marc Short (Koch Industries)
    • Senior Communications Advisor: Sean Spicer (RNC)
    • Senior Advisor: Katie Walsh (RNC)
    • Deputy Communications Director: Bryan Lanza (Citizens United)

Department of State

  • Secretary of State Nominee: Rex Tillerson (ExxonMobil)
  • Ambassador to the UN Nominee: Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC)
  • Ambassador to China Nominee: Gov. Terry Branstad (R-IA)
  • Ambassador to Israel: David Friedman (Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP)
  • Transition Team:
    • Steven Groves (Heritage Foundation)
    • James Burnham (Jones Day)
    • Robert Blau (retired, Senior Foreign Service officer)
    • Erin Walsh (retired, Goldman Sachs)
    • Alexander Gray (Trump for America)
    • Ambassador Jackie Wolcott (US Commission on International Religious Freedom, former UN Security Council Ambassador)
    • Ashley Bell (RNC)
    • Charles Glazer (Fieldpoint Private)
    • Christopher Burnham (Cambridge Global Capital)
    • Catharine O’Neill (House Foreign Affairs Committee, formerly)
    • Kristal Quarker Hartsfield (Executive Office of the Governor of Maryland)
    • Andrew Peek (Claremont McKenna College)

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