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'''Gene B. Sperling''' is a candidate for the position of Director of the National Economic Council (NEC) for the Obama Administration, as of January 2010, to take the place of controversial NEC Director [[Larry Summers]]. President [[William Jefferson Clinton]] created the Council "in 1993 to coordinate the economic policy process among all cabinet agencies, with respect to both domestic and international economic issues. [http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/nec/html/sperling.html]

Sperling served in the Clinton Administration, as noted in the background section below, and subsequently held a variety of jobs, including earning almost a million dollars as a "consultant" to [[Goldman Sachs]], according to his financial disclosure form filed in 2009when he initially joined the Obama Administration as an advisor at the Treasury Department.

Sperling served as National Economic Advisor and Director of the [[National Economic Council]] under President [[William Jefferson Clinton], from 1995 to 2000, after serving as the Deputy Director earlier in the administration. <ref>See, e.g., http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/nec/html/sperling.html</ref> (President [[William Jefferson Clinton]] created the Council "in 1993 to coordinate the economic policy process among all cabinet agencies, with respect to both domestic and international economic issues.")<ref>http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/nec/html/sperling.html</ref>