About the Author

David Marchick is the former director of the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition and was the host of its Transition Lab podcast. He has also served as a senior business executive, serves as an adjunct professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and held several positions within the Biden and the Clinton administrations.

Alexander Tippett is a former research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations and previously worked as a researcher at the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition.

A. J. Wilson is a former speechwriter for British and American government officials and now works as a collaborating writer. His collaborations have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.