Michael Froman ’85
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Michael Froman ’85, the deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, joined the Obama administration in early February. He reports to the National Economic Council and the National Security Council, and his responsibilities include acting as a White House liaison at meetings of the G20 economic powers, as well as the G7 and G8. Froman was an advisory board member on the Obama-Biden transition team.
Froman, who attended Harvard Law School with President Barack Obama and was an undergraduate classmate of Michelle Obama ’85, majored in the Woodrow Wilson School and produced a radio news program on WPRB during his college days. After law school, he received a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.
Froman’s new position marks a return to Washington. He previously worked for the National Economic Council, the National Security Council, and the Treasury Department during the Clinton administration. More recently, he served as a managing director at Citigroup, working with former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. In March, when executives in the financial-services industry were under fire about year-end bonuses, Froman vowed that if he were to receive a bonus for last year, he would give his to charity, according to The New York Times.