Since elections on November 4th Barack Obama is working with his closest advisers on forming his administration. Facing the financial crisis and its consequences the appointment of his economic team had top priority, followed by nominations from members of the administration to the areas of foreign and security policy. Finally, positions in the judiciary, energy, health, etc. were awarded. Still, the new team is not complete but it takes form.
For this reason, we collected information about those people who already have been nominated, and candidates for open positions.
1. The West Wing
White House chief of staff: Rahm Emanuel
Senior Adviser to the President: David Axelrod
White House Press Secretary: Robert Gibbs
White House Counsel: Gregory B. Craig
Senior White House Adviser: Pete Rouse
Deputy Chief of Staff: Mona Sutphen
Deputy Chief of Staff: Jim Messina
White House Staff Secretary: Lisa Brown
White House Counsel: Cassandra Quin Butts
Vice President Chief of Staff: Ronald Klain
White House Cabinet Secretary: Christopher Lu
To be announced: David Plouffe
2. Foreign, and Defense, and Security
National Security Adviser: James L. Jones
Defense Secretary: Robert M. Gates
Secretary of State: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano
Ambassador to the United Nations: Susan E. Rice
Defense and Homeland Security: Rand Beers
Director of National Intelligence: Dennis C. Blair
Defense and Homeland Security position: Richard J. Danzig
Defense and Homeland Security position: John J. Hamre
Defense and Homeland Security position: Anthony Lake
Defense and Homeland Security position: James B. Steinberg
A top foreign policy job, possibly national security adviser.: Richard C. Holbrooke
A foreign policy position. (considered): Denis McDonough
Senior defense post (considered): Max Cleland
3. Economics
Chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers. (confirmed): Christina Romer
Director of National Economic Council: Lawrence H. Summers
Economic Recovery Advisory Board: Austan Goolsbee
Economic Recovery Advisory Board: Paul A. Volcker
Office of Management and Budget Director: Peter R. Orszag
Secretary of Commerce: Bill Richardson
Secretary of the Treasury: Timothy F. Geithner
US Trade Representative: Xavier Becerra
4. Energy and Environment
Secretary of Energy: Steven Chu
5. Justice and other National Affairs
Attorney general: Eric H. Holder Jr.
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Tom Daschle
Secretary of Labor: David E. Bonior
Secretary of the Interior: John A. Kitzhaber
Secretary of Transportation: Jane F. Garvey
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Eric K. Shinseki
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Shaun Donovan