David Plouffe
| David Plouffe | |
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| Senior Advisor to the President | |
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In office January 10, 2011 – January 25, 2013 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David Axelrod |
| Succeeded by | Dan Pfeiffer |
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| Born |
May 27, 1967 Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | University of Delaware, Newark (BA) |
David Plouffe (/ˈplʌf/; born May 27, 1967) is an American political strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant, he was a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKPD Message and Media, which he joined in 2000. Plouffe was an outside senior advisor to Obama since the president's first day in office and was then appointed as a Senior Advisor to the President (inside the White House) in 2011 following the resignation of David Axelrod, who went on to start Obama's reelection campaign. In September 2014, he became the Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy for transportation network company Uber. In May 2015, he left that role to become a full-time strategic adviser for the company. In January 2017, he joined the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to lead the policy and advocacy efforts of the initiative.
Plouffe was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, in a Catholic family (he is now an Episcopalian), the son of Frances (née Vincent), a stay-at-home mother, and James Everett "Jim" Plouffe, a factory worker who later had a job in marketing. He was raised in a working-class household. Plouffe attended St. Mark's High School. He left the University of Delaware prior to graduating in 1989 to pursue a full-time career in politics, and completed his full undergraduate degree in May 2010.
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