Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel is an American politician and the former White House Chief of Staff.

No stranger to the White House, Emanuel served as director of the finance committee for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, and later as an adviser to President Clinton from 1993-1998. Emanuel worked in the private sector, mainly as an investment banker, before serving on the Board of Directors for Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. He returned to politics in 2002, when he ran for congress. From 2003 to 2009, Emanuel represented Illinois' 5th congressional district as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives.

Emanuel coauthored The Plan: Big Ideas for Change in America with Bruce Reed, the president of the Democratic Leadership Council.