The New York City-based Markle Foundation has announced the appointment of Denis McDonough as senior principal. In that role, McDonough, White House chief of staff for President Barack Obama’s second term and a former deputy national security advisor, will work with the foundation’s team to design and develop a strategy to scale Skillful, a partnership of the foundation with LinkedIn, the state of Colorado, Arizona State University, and others aimed at transforming America’s outdated labor market to reflect the needs of the twenty-first century digital economy.
