By Kevin McCauley
Ken Baer, former associate director for communications/strategic planning at the White House Office of Management and Budget, has joined The Harbour Group as managing director.
At OMB, Baer handled communications, new media, press relations and served as key advisors to directors Peter Orszag and Jack Lew.
He was a key spokesperson for the Obama administration’s economic, regulatory and policy issues.
Upon leaving OMB during the summer, Baer focused on the speechwriting shop at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.
Before joining the White House, Baer co-founded and edited Democracy: A Journal of Ideas,” a quarterly publication; ran Baer Communications and wrote “Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from Reagan to Clinton.” |