WASHINGTON — Cecilia Rouse, one of President Joe Biden’s senior economic advisers, will leave the administration on Friday, marking the latest personnel shift in the White House.
“It’s bittersweet,” Rouse, the first Black American to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, said in an interview. “I look forward to going back to putting my academic hat back on, but I’m leaving behind an amazing administration.”
Rouse will return to the faculty at Princeton University in April, where she previously served as dean of the School of Public and International Affairs. She took public-service leave from academia to accept Biden’s nomination to head the council, providing analysis and research to the White House’s economic policy.
