John David Podesta Jr. is an American political consultant who served as Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy from 2024 to 2025, having previously served as Senior Advisor
Podesta in 2024
Podesta meeting with Bill Clinton and Georgetown University president John J. DeGioia in 2006
President Obama holds a meeting with Podesta and Susan Rice aboard Air Force One, 2015
The White House chief of staff is the head of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, a position in the federal government of the United States.
John Podesta
…previously served as Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation from 2022 to 2025. Podesta previously served as White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015. Before that, he served in the Clinton administration…
The White House logo under Trump 2.0
Chief of Staff Jack Watson (1980–1981) meets with President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office, in 1977
President George H. W. Bush sits at his desk in the Oval Office Study as Chief of Staff John Sununu stands nearby, in 1989