Another Duke University professor has been tapped for President Barack Obama's administration.
Public policy professor Bruce Jentleson was sworn in this month as a senior adviser to the U.S. State Department policy planning director, reports Barb Barrett.
Jentleson previously served in Bill Clinton's administration in 1993-94 and was a senior adviser to then-Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000.
Jentleson will work as a consultant, splitting his duties between Washington and Duke.
At the State Department, his job will be to think strategically about the United States’ future role in the world, he said in an interview. Much of his focus will be on the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Jentleson also will be involved in writing planning documents, developing broad strategies and writing speeches.
He joined the Duke faculty in 2000 and served as director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy through 2005.
Obama previously nominated Duke professor Christopher H. Schroeder to become an assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice, and Duke's Richard G. Newell to lead the Energy Information Administration, an agency that tracks energy-related statistics in Washington.
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