Tracker: Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest
Donald Trump’s second-term picks for cabinet positions and other important political appointments are riddled with conflicts of interest. As was the case with Trump’s first administration, his second administration is handing over the power to regulate and oversee corporations to executives from the very same companies, as well as corporate-aligned think tanks. We are s following the money — and holding them accountable.
This tracker represents the work of Public Citizen researchers and of our allies at the Revolving Door Project.
Full reference with source links (last update: August 11, 2026)
| First Name | Last Name | Agency | Title | Prior Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tristan | Abbey | Energy | Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration | National Center for Energy Analytics (project of TPPF), Thiel firms, Energy Policy Research Foundation |
| Ademola | Adewale-Sadik | African Development Bank | Director | Aqua Platform, Iwaju Capital, 127 Wall Holdings, Iwaju Management |
| Jarrod | Agen | White House | Deputy assistant to the president, Executive director of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council | Lockheed Martin, Vice President Mike Pence, Republican politics |
| Mark | Andersen | Army | Assistant Secretary | Ernst & Young (founder, U.S. federal consulting practice); Andersen Advisory; Tesla Government (advisor) |
| Matthew | Anderson | National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) | Deputy Administrator | CACI International Space Force Association Core Values Inc. Space Development Ventures, Corp. (d/b/a STAR HARBOR) |
| Gary | Andres | Health and Human Services | Assistant Secretary for Legislation | House aide; Biotechnology Innovation Organization; Dutko Worldwide |
| Daniel | Aronowitz | Labor | Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security Administration | Encore Fiduciary (formerly Euclid Fiduciary) |
| Audrey | Barrios | Energy | Senior Advisor | Liberty Energy |
| Derek | Barrs | Transportation | Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration | HNTB Corporation |
| Keith | Bass | Defense | Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs | GlobalMed |
| Nancy | Beck | Environmental Protection Agency | Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator | American Chemistry Council. Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Office of Management and Budget, EPA, White House |
| Bryan | Bedford | Federal Aviation Administration | Administrator | Republic Airways |
| Marc | Berkowitz | Defense | Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy | Lockheed Martin Incisive Consulting Group |
| Jonathan | Berry | Labor | Solicitor | Boyden Gray PLLC |
| Scott | Bessent | Treasury | Secretary | Billionaire founder of hedge fund Key Square Capital Management, formerly chief investment officer of Soros Fund Management |
| Jay | Bhattacharya | NIH | Director | Stanford Medical School professor. Hoover Institution Senior Fellow. Research Associate at Sphere Institute / Acumen LLC. Previously the RAND Corporation. |
| Frank | Bisignano | Social Security Administration/IRS | Commissioner/CEO | Fiserv, Inc. |
| Ben | Black | U.S. International Development Finance Corporation | CEO | Fortinbras Enterprises |
| Todd | Blanche | Justice | Acting Attorney General | DOJ, WilmerHale, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, Blanche Law |
| Michael | Boren | Agriculture | Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment | Clearwater Analytics, Galena Mines, WestPass Ranch LLC |
| Massad | Boulos | State | Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs | SCOA Nigeria |
| Steven | Bradbury | Transportation | Deputy Secretary | Kirkland & Ellis; Dechert; Heritage Foundation |
| Mindy | Brashears | Agriculture | Under Secretary for Food Safety | Acacia Professional Services, Global Food Innovations, Boar's Head Food Safety Advisory Council |
| Bill | Briggs | Small Business Administration | Deputy administrator | Independent Bankers Association of Texas, BB Advisory |
| Jonathan | Brightbill | Energy | General Counsel | Winston & Strawn |
| Colton | Buckley | Agriculture | Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service | Turning Point USA, Breckenridge Economic Development Corporation |
| Karen | Budd-Falen | Interior | Associate Deputy Secretary | Interior Dept., Mountain States Legal Foundation, Budd-Falen Law Offices |
| Doug | Burgum | Interior | Secretary | Sold company to Microsoft, Gov. of North Dakota, Close to Harold Hamm, leases farmland to Hamm for oil and gas drilling |
| Robert | Burkett | Commerce | Chief of Staff, Bureau of Industry and Security | ACLJ Action |
| Patrick | Butler | Commerce | Deputy General Counsel for Litigation | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Scott | Cameron | Interior | Senior Adviser | Interior Department, Dawson and Associates, R3 Government Solutions. |
| Eric | Chacon | Commerce | Senior Advisor, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) | AT&T |
| Gustav | Chiarello | Health and Human Services | Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources | Senior Special Counsel to the House Committee on the Judiciary, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan; Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust, chaired by Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, Worked as an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) |
| Jay | Clayton | Justice, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (nominee) | U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Director of National Intelligence (nominee) | Sullivan & Cromwell; Apollo Global Management; American Express; Coinbase Asset Management; Fireblocks; Electric Capital; Millennium; Brevan Howard |
| Steven | Cook | Environmental Protection Agency | Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management | LyondellBasell; Bracewell LLP |
| George | Cook | Commerce | Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs; lso performing the duties of the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau | Justinian Advisory Ltd., BlackRock International Ltd., Brevan Howard, |
| David | Copley | White House | National Security Council | Newmont Corp. |
| Keith | Coyle | Transportation | Chief Counsel for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | Babst Calland |
| Jessica | Curyto | Commerce | Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Security, Bureau of Industry and Security | The Chertoff Group; Institute for Defense Analyses |
| Paul | Dabbar | Commerce | Deputy Secretary | JPMorgan Chase & Co |
| James | Danly | Energy | Deputy Secretary | Skadden (Clients include NGAA, Southern Company, EPS, Exelon) |
| Patrick | Davis | Justice | Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs | American Petroleum Institute |
| Blake | Deeley | White House | Deputy Executive director of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council | American Clean Power Association |
| Lynn Ann | Dekleva | Environmental Protection Agency | Deputy Assistant Administrator | American Chemistry Council, DuPont |
| Don | Dempsey | OMB | Associate Director for Health | CVS |
| Yevette | DePinto | Commerce | Chief of staff | Cantor Fitzgerald |
| Kyle | Diamantas | FDA | Acting Commissioner | Jones Day |
| Alex | Dominguez | Environmental Protection Agency | Deputy Assistant Administrator | American Petroleum Institute (clients include NRG) |
| Sean | Duffy | Transportation | Secretary | BGR Government Affairs |
| Troy | Edgar | Homeland Security | Deputy Secretary | IBM; Global Conductor, Inc. |
| John | Eisenberg | Justice | Assistant Attorney General for National Security | Kirkland & Ellis, Trump White House |
| Nick | Elliot | White House | Senior Policy Adviser, National Energy Dominance Council | Morgan Stanley, Energy Arbitrage Partners, Swire Bulk, Telysium Energy, Brookfield Renewable |
| Lanny | Erdos | Interior | Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement | Cardinal Reclamation Company, LLC/VP; VP Iron Eagle Land Rehabilitation, LLC; Ohio Coal Regulator |
| Andrew | Farquharson | Commerce | Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing | Lockheed Martin |
| Steve | Feinberg | Defense | Deputy Secretary | Cerberus Capital Management |
| David | Fink | Transportation | Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration | Pan Am Railway |
| Alex | Fitzsimmons | Energy | Director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, Former Chief of Staff | Fueling US Forward, Institute for Energy Research, Berman & Co |
| Samuel | Fodale | Energy | Deputy White House Liaison | JC Fodale Energy Services |
| David | Fogel | Commerce | Assistant Secretary for Global Markets and Director General, U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service | North Country Colocation Services Corp. (NCCS), Bitwise Funds Trust, IndexIQ LLC, Groton Partners LLC, Circle Peak Capital LLC, Updata Partners, TheStreet.com, Inc., SmartPortfolio.com, Inc., Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York Life Insurance Company |
| Edward | Forst | GSA | Administrator | Goldman Sachs; Cushman & Wakefield (CEO); Lion Capital |
| Robert | Foster | HHS | Acting General Counsel | Legal officer at two biotech companies, Senate HELP Committee counsel, advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at HHS. |
| David | Fotouhi | Environmental Protection Agency | Deputy Administrator | GibsonDunn |
| Theodore | Garrish | Energy | Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy | Nuclear Energy Institute |
| Joe | Gebbia | National Design Studio | Chief Design Officer | AirBnB founder, Musk friend |
| Pierre | Gentin | Commerce | General counsel | McKinsey & Company |
| Matt | Giacona | Interior | Deputy Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Acting Director BOEM | National Ocean Industries Association |
| Dario | Gil | Energy | Undersecretary for Science | IBM |
| Cooper | Godfrey | Commerce | Counselor and Senior Policy Advisor | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP |
| Jonathan | Greenstein | Treasury | Under Secretary for International Affairs | Road Capital Management LP |
| Jamieson | Greer | Office of the U.S. Trade Representative | U.S. Trade Representative | King & Spalding LLP |
| Wells | Griffith | State | Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs; Nominee to be both the U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna | FTI Consulting |
| Bill | Groffy | Interior | Bureau of Land Management, Acting Director | Colorado Oil and Gas Association, Ovintiv, Marathon Oil |
| Adam | Gustafson | Justice | Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division | Boeing; Cooper & Kirk; Boyden Gray & Associates |
| Jeffrey | Hall | Environmental Protection Agency | Assistant Administrator of OECA | Burke Law Group |
| Catherine | Hanson | Environmental Protection Agency | Chief Financial Officer | Tax Foundation; Common Sense Society; Global Business Alliance |
| Kevin | Hassett | White House | White House National Economic Council | America First Policy Institute |
| Kyle | Haustveit | Energy | Under Secretary of Energy | Devon Energy, Fervo Energy |
| Annie | Hawkins | Commerce | General Counsel, NOAA | Responsible Offshore Development Alliance |
| Jacob | Helberg | State | Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs | Palantir |
| Noah | Hoggatt | Interior | Deputy Solicitor, Parks and Wildlife | Lobbyist for Cheniere; Entergy; Range Resources |
| Kenneth | Howery | State | U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark | Founders Fund, Gigafund |
| Scott | Hutchins | Agriculture | Under Secretary for the Research, Education, and Economics, and Chief Scientist | Dow AgroSciences / Corteva Agriscience |
| Jared | Isaacman | National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) | Administrator, NASA | Shift4 Payments, Inc. Revel Systems, Inc. RookX, LLC |
| Neil | Jacobs | Commerce | Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and NOAA Administrator | Spire Global |
| Catherine | Jereza | Energy | Assistant Secretary for Office of Electricity | Edison Electric Institute (EEI), EPRO |
| Taylor | Jordan | Commerce | Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction, and Director of the Office of Space Commerce | Innovative Federal Strategies |
| Daniel | Jorjani | White House | Special Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Counsel | CitizensUnited |
| Robert | Kadlec | Defense | Assistant Secretary of War for Nuclear Deterrence, Chemical, and Biological Defense Policy and Programs | Emergent BioSolutions (consultant) |
| Brittany | Kelm | White House | Former Advisor for External Affairs, Office of Land and Mineral Management; White House adviser | Shell |
| Robert | Kennedy Jr. | Health and Human Services | Secretary | Children’s Health Defense, JW Howard Attorneys - senior attorney Kennedy & Madonna (now Madonna & Madonna) - partnership Dragonfly Therapeutics - investor |
| Jeffrey | Kessler | Commerce | Under Secretary for Industry and Security | WilmerHale |
| William | Kimmitt | Commerce | Undersecretary of commerce for international trade | Kirkland & Ellis |
| Ben | Kochman | Transportation | Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Deputy Administrator | Interstate Natural Gas Association of America |
| Deidre | Kohlrus | Interior | Director, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs | Energy Workforce & Technology Council |
| Dana Michael ("Mike") | Kopp | Energy | Assistant Director, Office of Technical Support and Asset Management | Intermountain Rural Electric Association Colorado Concern STAPLE Investments, LLC |
| Jessica | Kramer | Environmental Protection Agency | Assistant Administrator for Water | Talos Energy; Duke Energy; LG Chem |
| Michael | Kratsios | White House | Office of Science and Technology Policy Director | Scale AI, Thiel Capital, US Defense Department |
| Harry | Kumar | Commerce | Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs | Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. |
| Kyle | Kunkler | Environmental Protection Agency | Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs | American Soybean Association |
| Scott | Kupor | White House | Office of Personel Management | Andreessen Horowitz (first employee). Former executive at Hewlett Packard and Opsware (which HP acquired). Worked in finance prior to tech at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. Member of numerous boards of directors of a16z portfolio companies. |
| Jared | Kushner | State | Special Envoy for Peace | Affinity Partners |
| Charles | Kushner | State | Ambassador to France & Monaco | Kushner Companies |
| David | LaCerte | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Commissioner | Baker Botts |
| Izzy | Lamanna | Energy | Director of Scheduling | Liberty Energy |
| Stuart | Levenbach | White House | Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, Science, and Water | BakerHughes |
| Kevin | Lilly | Interior | Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks | Avalon Advisors, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley |
| Kelly | Loeffler | Small Business Administration | Administrator | Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE owner), Bakkt |
| Howard | Lutnick | Commerce | Secretary | Cantor Fitzgerald |
| Katharine | MacGregor | Interior | Deputy Secretary | Florida Power & Light; NextEra; Work with former Interior Secretary and lobbyist David Bernhardt |
| Ned | Mamula | Interior | Director, U.S. Geological Survey | CATO; Anadarko Petroleum; Leonardo Technologies; GreenMet |
| William | McIntosh | Environmental Protection Agency | Former Acting Deputy Administrator; now International Boundary and Water Commission | Ford Motor Company |
| Robert | McLeod | Commerce | Director of Intergovernmental Affairs | America First Policy Institute |
| Linda | McMahon | Education | Secretary | World Wrestling Entertainment, Small Business Administration, America First Policy Institute, America First Action SuperPAC |
| Sean | McMaster | Transportation | Administrator, Federal Highway Administration | Boeing; HNTB |
| Linnea | Melbye | Interior | Senior Advisor, Bureau of Reclamation | National Mining Association |
| Joyce | Meyer | Commerce | Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, overseeing the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau | American Council of Life Insurers |
| Kara | Moriarty | Interior | Alaska Adviser | Alaska Oil and Gas Association |
| Jonathan | Morrison | Transportation | Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) | Apple California New Car Dealers Association Auto Advisory Services, Inc. |
| Markwayne | Mullin | Homeland Security | Secretary | U.S. Senate, family home-services company |
| Christopher | Netram | Commerce | Director, Office of Policy & Strategic Planning | National Association of Manufacturers |
| Ho | Nieh | Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) | Chairman | Southern Nuclear Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory |
| Jim | O'Neill | National Science Foundation | Nominee for director | Worked at HHS under George W. Bush. Mithril Capital. Advantage Therapeutics |
| Rachael | Overbey | Energy | Chief of Staff, Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) | Revolution Energy Group; New Mexico Oil & Gas Association; Franklin Mountain Energy LLC; Emerald Oil |
| Mehmet | Oz | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | Administrator | Daytime TV personality; failed Senate candidate |
| William | Palmer | Commerce | Director of Legislative Affairs for Intelligence and National Security | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP |
| Drue | Pearce | Interior | Counselor to the Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management | Holland&Knight |
| Lanora | Pettit | Justice | Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel | Office of the Texas Attorney General |
| Nicholas | Poradek | Energy | Senior Advisor | Edera Energy LLC Liberty Energy ST9 Gas + Oil Weir Oil and Gas |
| Anthony | Pugliese | Energy | Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization and the Chief Commercialization Officer | Envision Strategy, LLC |
| Wynn | Radford IV | Environmental Protection Agency | Chief of Staff for the EPA Region 6 | BP |
| Andrew | Rapp | Energy | Senior Advisor for International Relations | Petrie Partners; Clients Include ExxonMobil; WEA; Cheniere; Tellurian |
| Kristin | Repass | Interior | Director for Scheduling and Advance | TC Energy |
| Mallory | Richardson | Environmental Protection Agency | Senior Advisor for the Office of Policy | National Association of Manufacturers, Chemours, Squire Patton Boggs, U.S. Chamber |
| Paul | Roberti | Transportation | Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | Ernst&Young |
| Audrey | Robertson | Energy | Assistant Secretary, Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation | Liberty Energy, Goldman Sachs, Copper Trail Partners LLC |
| Hiroaki | Rodriguez | Commerce | Executive Director of the Advocacy Center | Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University |
| Evan | Rogers | Energy/White House | Special Assistant, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs/Senior Policy Advisor, National Energy Dominance Council | Alabama Power |
| Brooke | Rollins | Agriculture | Secretary | America First Policy Institute; Texas Public Policy Foundation |
| David | Sacks | White House | President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | Craft Ventures, Glue, Paypal, Yammer, Geni, Zenefits |
| John | Sauer | Justice | Solicitor General | Missouri Attorney General's office, Cooper & Kirk, James Otis Law Group (private firm) |
| Ronald | Schindler | Interior | Counselor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Pioneer Natural Resources |
| Justin | Schwab | EPA | Senior Advisor to the Administrator | CGCN |
| Bryton | Shang | Commerce | Executive director of the National AI Center | Aquabyte, Inc; Bryton Ventures LLC |
| David | Shapiro | Commerce | Chief counsel of the U.S. Investment Accelerator, U.S. government’s director on the board of U.S. Steel | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
| James | Sherk | White House | White House Domestic Policy Council | America First Policy Institute |
| Peter | Simshauser | Transportation | Chief Counsel, National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator | Motional |
| John | Squires | Commerce | Under Secretary for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office | Dilworth Paxson |
| Kenneth | Stevens | Interior | Principal Deputy Director Exercising the Delegated Authorities of the Director, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement | CnHn Strategies, GE |
| Coke | Stewart | Commerce | Deputy Under Secretary for Intellectual Property at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | O’Melveny & Myers LLP |
| Laura | Swett | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Chair | Vinson & Elkins |
| Aaron | Szabo | Environmental Protection Agency | Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation | CGCN; Duke Energy; AFPM; Chemours |
| Abigale | Tardif | Environmental Protection Agency | Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation | Marathon Petroleum, AFPM lobbyist |
| Anthony | Tata | Defense | Under Secretary for Personnel & Readiness | Tata Leadership Group |
| Kevin | Tatulyan | Energy | Chief of Staff for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management | Seneca Resources |
| Nathaniel | Tisa | Environmental Protection Agency | Principal Deputy General Counsel | GibsonDunn |
| Andrea | Travnicek | Interior | Assistant Secretary for Water and Science | National Water Resources Association, North Dakota Water Resources |
| Douglas | Troutman | Environmental Protection Agency | Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances | American Cleaning Institute |
| Usha-Maria | Turner | Environmental Protection Agency | Assistant Administrator for International and Tribal Affairs | Chesapeake Energy; Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company |
| Tim | Walsh | Energy | Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management | Confluence Companies |
| Michael | Waltz | White House | UN Ambassador | Member of Congress since 2019. Army veteran. Founded and sold the defense contractor Metis Solutions. |
| Susie | Wiles | White House | Chief of Staff | Lobbyist, Mercury Public Affairs (Feb. 2022-Nov. 2024); Lobbyist/Managing Partner, Ballard Partners (2011-Sept. 2019); Trump Presidential Campaigns |
| Thomas | Williams | OMB | Associate Director for Defense | military contractors |
| Gregory | Wischer | Interior | Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Mineral Management | Dei Gratia Minerals; Westwin Elements |
| Steve | Witkoff | State | Special Envoy for Peace | The Witkoff Group, World Liberty Financial |
| Emily | Wong | Transportation | Deputy Chief Counsel, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | American Petroleum Institute |
| Andrea | Woods | Energy | Deputy Director of Public Affairs | American Petroleum Institute |
| Stanley | Woodward | Justice | Associate Attorney General | Walt Nauta Peter Navarro Dan Scavino Defending the Republic, Inc. |
| Chris | Wright | Energy | Secretary | Liberty Energy |
| Brenda | Younkin | Interior | Advisor for Public Lands, Bureau of Land Management | Y2 Consultants |
| Lee | Zeldin | Environmental Protection Agency | Administrator | Member of Congress 2015-2023 and ran unsuccessfully for NY Governor in 2022. In 2023, Zeldin founded Zeldin Strategies, a corporate consulting firm helping clients with "strategy, public relations, acquisitions, crisis management, and much more." Clients included Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Marwood Group, Softheon |
| Gregory | Zerzan | Transportation | General Counsel | enCore Energy; Koch Industries |