Names: Jim Greene joins the Millennium Challenge Corporation
The Millennium Challenge Corporation is getting ready to announce a new deputy vice president for policy, Jim Greene. But a huge proportion of senior appointed positions at the agency remain vacant, held up by the Obama administration’s famously onerous vetting process. Greene, who served for 17 years as an advisor to then Senate Foreign Relations ...
The Millennium Challenge Corporation is getting ready to announce a new deputy vice president for policy, Jim Greene. But a huge proportion of senior appointed positions at the agency remain vacant, held up by the Obama administration's famously onerous vetting process.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation is getting ready to announce a new deputy vice president for policy, Jim Greene. But a huge proportion of senior appointed positions at the agency remain vacant, held up by the Obama administration’s famously onerous vetting process.
Greene, who served for 17 years as an advisor to then Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Joseph Biden, will work under Vice President for Policy and International Relations Sheila Herrling, formerly with the Center for Global Development. Greene’s long experience on Capitol Hill will be a huge asset to the MCC as its $1.28 billion budget request makes its way through the legislative process.
"Jim brings a wealth of policy and political experience to his position on the management team at MCC," Chief Executive Officer Daniel Yohannes will say in a soon-to-be-released statement.
But MCC’s position for vice president for congressional and public affairs is still vacant, as are four other vice president positions at the agency. In fact, Herrling is the only VP in place; the rest of the departments are run by acting VPs. Vacant slots include the vice president for the Office of General Counsel, the vice president for administration, and the chief of staff.
An MCC official told The Cable on background that the White House vetting process was the primary reason for the vacancies. It just takes so long to get choices through the system and receive approval on the other side, the official said.
Two more senior MCC appointments could be coming soon, but "the way things are going, who knows," the official said.
In the Senate, Greene handled legislation on international financial institutions, bilateral investment treaties, tax treaties, development assistance, and international energy and environmental issues including climate change.
Previously, Greene has taught at both Texas A&M University and the University of Houston.
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