Former GWU President to Serve on Gray Transition Team

After an unsurprising victory in the DC mayoral election Tuesday, Mayor-Elect Vincent Gray unveiled his transition team today and included a name familiar to many GWU Students: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.

Trachtenberg, the predecessor to current GWU president Steven Knapp, was selected alongside the president of the DC Chamber of Commerce, Barbara Lang, to advise the Mayor-Elect on issues of economic development. The pair were instructed to immediately address the District's soaring unemployment.

Trachtenberg, now 73, was the 15th president of the university from 1988 to 2007.