Obama chief of staff joins Notre Dame global affairs faculty
One of former President Barack Obama's top White House aides is joining the University of Notre Dame's international affairs program.
The university says Denis McDonough will be an instructor for the first class of graduate students in master of global affairs program. McDonough became the White House chief of staff in January 2013 and continued in the position through all of Obama's second term as president. He previously was Obama's deputy national security adviser.
The announcement also introduced the new "Donald Keough School of Global Affairs" at Notre Dame, which enrolls 38 students from 21 countries.
The Keough School was first announced in 2014, and it will bring together nine units from the university focused on international research.
Keough School of Global Affairs dean Scott Appleby says McDonough brings an encyclopedic knowledge of international and domestic affairs to Notre Dame from more than a decade at the highest levels of government.
