Top White House Adviser Worked for Pfizer Before Joining Biden Admin: Disclosure

Senior White House adviser Anita Dunn counts pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as a former client, according to a recently released ethics disclosure.

Dunn is a senior advisor to President Joe Biden and managing director of SKDKnickerbocker, a public affairs and political consulting firm that has forged connections with major political figures within the Democrat Party.

She was the senior advisor to Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign and worked for the president in that same capacity from January 2021 through that August, when the COVID-19 pandemic was still in full swing, before returning for a brief stint from March 1 to 8. During that time, she was classified as a “special government employee” according to The Washington Post. 

Dunn, who also served as a former senior advisor and White House Communications Director for the Obama Administration, returned to the White House as an assistant and senior advisor to the president in May, meaning she was required by law to file a public disclosure form.

According to the recent disclosure, which was first reported by CNBC’s Brian Schwartz, Dunn has previously consulted for several major corporations over the past two years prior to her May appointment; advising AT&T, Lyft, Micron, Intra-Cellular Therapies, Salesforce, Reddit, and Pfizer.

Under “other assets and income” Dunn also lists Pfizer, and states that it has a value of $1,001 – $15,000 although the income amount states “None (or less than $201).”

Back in February 2021, Dunn was reported as saying that “Covid is the best thing that ever happened” to President Joe Biden in the book “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency” by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes of NBC News and the Hill respectively.

Sizeable Investment Portfolio

The 93-page financial disclosure document (c) also shows that Dunn did consulting work for the D.C.–based renewables trade group American Clean Power Association; Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company founded by Melinda French Gates; and the Center for American Progress Action, a liberal public policy research and advocacy organization.

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