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Obama_pic.jpgToday President Obama announced that he has appointed two Silicon Valley leaders to a 16-person committee called the Economic Advisory Board. The board will offer the President economic advice during this current recession.

Oracle President Charles Phillips and billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr have been chose to sit on the Board. Here is a list of all of the other current members of Obama's Economic Advisory Board, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times:

Anna Burger, secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union

William H. Donaldson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Martin Feldstein, professor of economics at Harvard University

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., CEO of retirement fund TIAA-CREF

Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO of General Electric

Monica C. Lozano, publisher and CEO of La Opinion

Jim Owens, CEO of Caterpillar Inc.

Penny Pritzker, founder of Pritzker Realty Group

David F. Swensen, chief investment officer of Yale University

Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO

Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley


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