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Liz Sears Smith is the Chief of Staff for Congressman and Obama Chief of Staff Designate Rahm Emanuel. She has served in this role since Rep. Emanuel was elected to Congress in 2002. Prior to this, Smith served in the Clinton Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the International Trade Administration at the Department of Commerce, where she managed 450 staff around the country and a budget of $35 million.

She was the Finance Director for Chicago ’96, the host committee for the 1996 Democratic National Convention and prior to that ran a public affairs consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. Smith graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and received an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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