PITTSBURGH, July 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- United States
Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) announced the Hon. Gene B. Sperling was elected to the company's
Board of Directors today.
Sperling served as Director of the National Economic Council
(NEC) and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the
White House under President Clinton from 1997 to 2001 and under
President Obama from 2011 to 2014, the first individual to hold
both positions under two presidents.
As NEC Director, he coordinated economic policy development
among the economic cabinet members. While serving in this role, he
was influential in fiscal negotiations, passage of the payroll and
low-income tax cuts, the Small Business Jobs Act and formation of
the American Jobs Act. He spearheaded the Manufacturing Innovation
Hubs initiative and the renewal of the Advanced Manufacturing
Partnership. Sperling was co-chair of the first White House
Manufacturing Council and helped launch the Select USA initiative.
During his time with the Clinton administration, Sperling played
a key role in the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act, the 1997 Bipartisan
Balanced Budget Act and major initiatives such as Earned Income Tax
Credit expansion and creation of the Community Development
Financial Institutions and New Markets Tax Credit.
Sperling also served as counselor to Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner at the U.S.
Department of the Treasury and as a member of the President's Auto
Task Force. He was the founder and director, from 2002-2008, of the
Center for Universal Education, which specializes in education for
girls and boys in developing and conflict-impacted nations.
Currently, he heads Sperling Economic Strategies and is a
contributing editor for The Atlantic. He graduated from the
University of Minnesota and Yale Law
School and attended Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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SOURCE United States Steel Corporation