Senior Advisor to the President of the United States

Senior Advisor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States. White House senior advisors are senior members of the White House Office. The title has been formally used since 1993.

Senior Advisor
Incumbent Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, Ivanka Trump
Executive Office of the President
Website	The White House

Responsibilities

Over time, the senior advisor role has had responsibility for the following groups:

• White House Office of Strategic Initiatives
• Office of American Innovation
• White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
• White House Office of Political Affairs
• Office of Public Liaison
• White House Communications Director

Prior administrations

In prior administrations before 1993, the position of "senior advisor" was a title used for various other purposes. Numerous examples of the position also exist throughout the Executive Departments and in the branch's independent agencies. For example, the Food and Drug Administration includes a position with the title Senior Advisor for Science; the Department of the Interior has a position with the title Senior Advisor for Alaskan Affairs.

List of senior advisors to the president

Senior Advisor			Portfolio	Term of office	Party	President
		Rahm Emanuel (born 1959)	Political Affairs Strategic Planning Policy	January 20, 1993 – November 7, 1998[1]	Democratic	Bill Clinton
		George Stephanopoulos (born 1961)	Strategic Planning Policy	June 7, 1993 – December 10, 1996[2]	Democratic
		Sidney Blumenthal (born 1948)	Political Affairs Communications Policy	August 19, 1997 – January 20, 2001[3]	Democratic
		Doug Sosnik (born 1959)	Political Affairs Strategic Planning Policy	November 7, 1998 – January 20, 2001[4]	Democratic
		Joel Johnson (born 1961)	Communications Policy	May 20, 1999 – January 20, 2001[5]	Democratic
		Karl Rove (born 1950)	Political Affairs Strategic Planning Communications	January 20, 2001 – August 31, 2007[6]	Republican	George W. Bush
		Barry Steven Jackson (born 1960)	Political Affairs Strategic Planning Communications	September 1, 2007 – January 20, 2009[7]	Republican
		Valerie Jarrett (born 1956)	Public Engagement Intergovernmental Affairs	January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017[8]	Democratic	Barack Obama
		Pete Rouse (born 1946)	Strategic Planning	January 20, 2009 – October 1, 2010[9]	Democratic
		David Axelrod (born 1955)	Political Affairs Communications	January 20, 2009 – January 10, 2011[10]	Democratic
		David Plouffe (born 1967)	Political Affairs Communications	January 10, 2011 – January 25, 2013[11]	Democratic
		Daniel Pfeiffer (born 1975)	Political Affairs Communications	January 25, 2013 – March 6, 2015[12]	Democratic
		Brian Deese (born 1978)	Climate and Energy[13]	February 13, 2015 – January 20, 2017[14]	Democratic
		Shailagh Murray (born 1965)	Communications	April 3, 2015 – January 20, 2017[15]	Democratic
		Jared Kushner[n 1] (born 1981)	Strategic Planning[19][20]	January 20, 2017 – present[21][22]	Republican[23]	Donald Trump
		Stephen Miller (born 1985)	Policy	January 20, 2017 – present[24]	Republican
		Ivanka Trump[n 1] (born 1981)	Women's Issues Policy	March 28, 2017 – present[25][26][27]	Republican[23]
		Kevin Hassett (born 1962)	Economic issues	April 15, 2020 – July 1, 2020[28]	Republican

See also

• Counselor to the President
• White House Chief Strategist

Footnotes

1. President Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump is sometimes called a 'Senior Advisor to the President' (or sometimes a 'senior advisor to the President', without the upper case 'S' and 'A'),[16][17] even though that is actually the title of her husband Jared Kushner, while her own title is 'Advisor to the President'.[18]

References

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27. Lucey, Catherine (February 26, 2018). "Ivanka Trump's dual roles as senior adviser, first daughter". Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 14, 2018.
28. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Addition to White House Staff". The White House – via whitehouse.gov.