New Hires For Obama's SciTech Team

Former Google Head of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs Andrew McLaughlin and Congressional Research Service veteran Deborah Stine have joined the Obama administration. McLaughlin will serve as a deputy chief technology officer under Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Stine will be the executive director of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy. PCAST is co-chaired by Obama's science adviser and OSTP Director John Holdren; Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; and Harold Varmus, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.