Nonprofit Leaders Tapped for Transition Team

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition aides, who are preparing for the change of power on January 20, have appointed more than 20 representatives of nonprofit groups, foundations, and think tanks to “agency review teams” that are charged with examining particular government bodies and offering advice on policy, budget, and personnel matters.

They include:

Robert Beers, president, National Security Network. (Homeland Security Department)

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president, global-development program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

Barbara Chow, director, education program, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. (Office of Management and Budget)

Bill Corr, executive director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. (Health and Human Services Department)

Stephen Crawford, deputy director, metropolitan-policy program, Brookings Institution. (U.S. Postal Service and Postal Regulatory Commission)

Ivo Daalder, senior fellow, foreign policy, Brookings Institution. (National Security Council)

Clark Kent Ervin, director, homeland-security program, Aspen Institute. (Homeland Security Department)

Ralph Everett, president, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. (Commerce Department)

Alan H. Fleischmann, managing director, ImagineNations Group. (Inter-American Development Bank)

Michele Flourney, president, Center for a New American Security. (Defense Department)

Marilyn Golden, policy analyst, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. (National Council on Disability and U.S. Access Board)

David Hayes, senior fellow, World Wildlife Fund; senior fellow, Progressive Policy Institute. (Working group responsible for energy and natural-resources agencies)

Alan W. Houseman, executive director, Center for Law and Social Policy. (Legal Services Corporation)

Michele Jolin, senior fellow, Center for American Progress. (Council of Economic Advisers)

Deborah Jospin, nonprofit-strategy consultant and president, Daniel A. Dutko Memorial Foundation. (Corporation for National and Community Service)

Bruce Katz, director, metropolitan-policy program, Brookings Institution. (Housing and Urban Development Department, Federal Housing Finance Board, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness)

Brad Kiley, vice president, finance and operations, Center for American Progress (on leave). (Office of Administration)

Jim Kohlenberger, executive director, Voice on the Net Coalition; senior fellow, Benton Foundation. (National Science Foundation)

Nicole Lurie, director, Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, RAND Corporation. (Health and Human Services Department)

Amy Comstock Rick, chief executive, Parkinson’s Action Network. (Office of Government Ethics and Office of Special Counsel)

Mara Eve Rudman, senior fellow, Center for American Progress. (National Security Council)

Shirley Sagawa, nonprofit-strategy consultant and fellow, Center for American Progress. (Corporation for National and Community Service)

Phyllis Segal, vice president, Civic Ventures. (Federal Labor Relations Authority)

The full list of transition-team members is available on the president-elect’s Change.gov Web site.