A newly appointed director of the US Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden is an American politician of Indian descent and president of the Center for American Progress. She assumed this responsibility in November 2011.
Neera has served in the administrations of US Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. She has been named one of The 50 Most Powerful Mothers of 2014 by The Working Mother Magazine. There has been controversy over Neera Tanden being chosen by Biden to head the White House budget office. Indeed, she is said to have some rift with Republican senators because of her comments about some members of the Senate.
Neera is considered close to former President Bill Clinton and his wife. She has been one of the critics of President Donald Trump and said that his actions and words are hurting the country.
Neera Tanden Family, Parents, Siblings
Neera was born on September 10, 1970, in Bedford, Massachusetts raised by her single mother Maya Tanden who is an Indian immigrant. Her parents came to the USA in the search of a better life. Her father earned his Masters’s degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1975 when she was just 5 years of age, her parents divorced.
Neera’s father sold their home and fly back to India leaving them alone in Bedford. Her mother had only two choices at the moment return to India or stay in America. She made the latter choice and stayed in America to pursue her goal for a better life for herself and her two children.
Her mother has to spend two years of her life on welfare before getting a job as a travel agent. Neera has a brother Raj Tanden who was born in 1966. the family had to rely on food stamps to eat, they had to depend on Section 8 vouchers to pay the rent. However, her mother left no stone unturned to give her children higher education for a better life.
Neera Tanden Education
Neera though struggling financially in her early life has never led her struggles to come in the way of her education. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale University in 1996. she was also a Submissions Editor for the Yale Law & Policy Review at the time. When she was a freshman at the University of California, she met her future husband Benjamin Edwards.
Neera Tanden Career Biography
Tanden after completing her education, moved to Washington to work for Democratic senatorial and presidential campaigns. She worked as associate director for domestic policy in Clinton’s administration and as senior adviser for Hilary Clinton. In 1999 and 2000, she then served as deputy campaign manager and issues director of Hilary Clinton for her successful senatorial campaign. From 2003 to 2005, she was then appointed as Senator Clinton’s Legislative Director.
Back in 2008, she served as policy director for Hillary Clinton’s Democratic presidential nomination. She was an unpaid adviser for the 2016 presidential election campaign of Hilary Clinton and was declared as her transition team. During President Obama’s administration, she served as a senior adviser to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services.
In October 2011, she was appointed as CAP’s President. On April 28, 2020, she was named to work for New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s Restart and Recovery Commission. In December 2020, she is announced to be the director of the US Office of Management and Budget in Biden’s Administration.
She is also a well-known columnist who has written columns for The New Republic online and has appeared on various shows like NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Real Time with Bill Maher, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox programs.
Neera Tanden Height
At the age of 50, this gracious lady is very active and energetic. She is interested in sports like baseball and loves to hike with her family whenever she got the time from her busy professional life.
Talking of height Neera Tanden stands at a height of 5 feet and 4 inches. She measures 162 cm in height and weighs 50 kg. She has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes like a true Asian woman.
Neera Tanden Husband, Married Life, Family
Neera met her husband when she was at the University of California as both she and her husband Benjamin Edwards were volunteering for Michael Dukas’s unsuccessful presidential campaigning in 1988.
Edwards proposed to her when she was just 19 years of age in 1989. But they waited a few years and got married in 1999. Neera’s friend Hillary Clinton gave her a wedding party in East Wing’s Yellow Oval Room at the White House in Washington, D.C.
Her husband Benjamin Edwards was born on 1st January 1970 in Iowa and he got his BA from the University of California. He produces paintings and has had multiple exhibitions all over the world. In 2018, he studied for a degree of doctorate in Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. In 2002, she gave birth to her first baby girl Ilina Edward and in 2005, her son Jaden Edwards was born.
Neera Tanden Net Worth & Salary
Neera has been professional all her life and her middle-class early life and the struggles of her mother have certainly motivated her to earn a decent income for her family and children. She has been the adviser for Hilary Clinton, has worked in Obama Administration, and is newly appointed in Biden’s administrations as well.
The average salary of a political adviser is said to be $80,184 a year. Therefore, Neera has gained a considerable income when she was serving as the president for CAP(Center for American Progress).
In 2016, it was reported that Neera earned a total income of $314,550. As of 2021, it is estimated that Neera Tanden’s net worth is 2.5 million dollars. Her husband is a well-known painter who has exhibitions all over the world.
Furthermore, it is stated that the annual average salary of an artist can range up to $43,901. The couple certainly has increased their net worth and will in the coming days together.
Neera Tanden Social Media
As Neera Tanden @neeratanden on her Twitter account which she joined in March 2010, she has defined herself as a liberal, Indian American mom, wife, and career-oriented woman. She has 333.5k followers to date and she has recently posted about her declaration as Director of OMB.
Her Instagram posts with the verified account as neeratanden have 1687 followers and have in total 54 posts to date mostly with pictures of her husband and family.
As Neera Tanden on her Facebook account, she has 3750 friends and her last post was on August 7 201 where she has posted a video of herself and her son.
Neera Tanden Bio Facts
| Full Name/Real Name | Neera Tanden Edwards |
| Date of Birth/Birthday | September 10, 1970 |
| Age | 50 |
| Birth Sign | Virgo |
| Born Country | USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Hometown | Bedford, Massachusetts |
| Ethnicity | Indian American |
| Parents | Maya Tanden |
| Siblings | 1 brother Raj Tanden |
| Profession | Political activist, adviser |
| Education(college/university) | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Marital status | Married |
| Husband | Benjamin Edwards |
| Children | Daughter Ilina Edwards and son Jaden Edwards |
| Social Media | Facebook, Twitter, Instagram |
| Net Worth | $2.5 million dollars |
| Height in meters | 1.62 meters |
| Height in Feet | 5 feet 4 inches |
