Policy implications of the midterm elections

Alexander Bick, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is an associate professor of practice in public policy in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served in the Biden administration as director for strategic planning at the National Security Council and as senior advisor and a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State. He also served at the State Department and National Security Council in the Obama administration, where his work focused on Syria. He is the author of Minutes of Empire. Bick holds a BA from the University of Chicago, a diploma in economics and an MSc in economic history from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in history from Princeton University.

Kevin Fromer, a Miller Center Governing Council member, is the immediate past president and CEO of the Financial Services Forum. Previously, he was executive vice president and head of public affairs for HSBC North America and a senior advisor to the chief executive of Legg Mason Global Asset Management. He also spent more than 20 years in government. From 2005 to 2009, he was assistant secretary of the treasury for legislative affairs in the administration of President George W. Bush. Prior to that, he was a senior policy advisor for the speaker of the House, chief of staff to U.S. Representative Hal Rogers, and an associate staff member of the House Appropriations and Budget Committees. He holds a BA from the University of Virginia.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a Miller Center practitioner senior fellow, is director of the Initiative on Improving Interbranch Relations and Government and a visiting fellow with governance studies at the Brookings Institution. She is also an advisory board member for the White House Transition Project. Tenpas is a scholar of the American presidency focusing on White House staffing and turnover and presidential transitions. She also studies interbranch relations, particularly the relationship between federal courts and Congress. She holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.