Revisiting the William J. Clinton presidency

Sylvia M. Burwell is president of the Harvard University Board of Overseers. From 2018 to 2024, she was president of American University. She served in the Obama administration as secretary of Health and Human Services and director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). During the Clinton administration, she was staff director of the National Economic Council, chief of staff for Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, deputy White House chief of staff to Erskine Bowles and the president's deputy chief of staff, and deputy director of OMB. She has also served as chief operating officer and president of the Global Development Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and president of the Walmart Foundation. She earned a BA from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

John Harris is co-founder and global editor-in-chief of POLITICO. He is also a member of the Miller Center's Governing Council. Harris began his career at The Washington Post, covering politics on the local, state, and national levels. From 1995 to 2001, he covered the Clinton White House. Later, he expanded on his reporting in a history of that presidency, The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House. He is also co-author, with his friend and fellow journalist Mark Halperin, of a book on presidential politics, The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008. After 20 years as a reporter, he became an editor, which led him and Jim VandeHei to launch POLITICO, a publication about politics from the ground up. Harris is a graduate of Carleton College, where he studied American history.

The Honorable James B. Steinberg is the dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He was previously dean of Syracuse University's Maxwell School and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law. As deputy secretary of state from 2009 to 2011, he served as the principal deputy to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. From 2005 to 2008 he was dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and before that was vice president and director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. During the Clinton administration, he served from 1996 to 2000 as deputy national security advisor to President Bill Clinton. Steinberg received his BA from Harvard University and a JD from Yale Law School.

Russell L. Riley is the Miller Center’s White Burkett Miller Center Professor of Ethics and Institutions and codirects the Presidential Oral History Program. He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on elite oral history interviewing and the contemporary presidency. He has logged more than 1,500 hours of confidential interviews with senior members of the White House staff, Cabinet officers, and foreign leaders back to the days of the Carter and Reagan administrations. He holds a BS from Auburn University and an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.

William J. Antholis has served as director and CEO of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs since January 2015. In that time, the Miller Center has strengthened its position as the leading nonpartisan research institution on the American presidency and worked with scholars across the University of Virginia to deliver vital research to policymakers and the public. Before coming to the Miller Center, Antholis served as managing director at the Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014, working directly with Brookings’s president and vice presidents. He also served at the U.S. Department of State and National Security Council. Antholis is the author of two books and dozens of articles on U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, the G8, climate change, and trade. He holds a BA from UVA and a PhD from Yale University.