SENIOR ADVISOR VALERIE JARRETT

Valerie B. Jarrett is Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison. Prior to her current position, she served as Co-Chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team and Senior Advisor to Obama's presidential campaign.

Jarrett became the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Habitat Company on January 31, 2007. She had served as Executive Vice President for 12 years. Prior to that, Jarrett served for eight years in Chicago government as Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley, and Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development. Before her city government service, Ms. Jarrett practiced law with two private law firms.

Jarrett is Director of USG Corporation, Inc., Navigant Consulting, Inc., and RREEF America II. She is Chair of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees, and Vice Chair of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees, the Chicago 2016 Olympic Committee, and Metropolis 2020. She is a Director of the Local Initiative Support Corporation, The Joyce Foundation, The Metropolitan Planning Council, and the Central Area Committee, and is a Trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry.

From 1995 to 2003, Jarrett also served as Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board. Jarrett served as Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., from April 2004 through April 2007 and as Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Stock Exchange Holdings, Inc., from February 2005 through April 2007. She was a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from January 2006 through April 2007. Jarrett served as Finance Chair for President Obama's 2004 run for the U.S. Senate and as the first Treasurer of the President's PAC, Hopefund.

Jarrett received her A.B. from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.