Jim Wilkinson (former U.S. Government Employee)
James Richard Wilkinson was the Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in the George W Bush administration. He had also served in the White House as Deputy Communications Director and as Deputy National Security Advisor], served at the US State Department as Senior Advisor to Condoleezza Rice. Overall, Wilkinson was a "well-traveled utility man for the Bush administration's PR team".
Wilkinson left politics after the global financial crisis, and now works in public relations. He served The Brunswick Group as a Managing Partner from January 2009 to April 2012, when he joined PepsiCo as Executive Vice President of Communications.
In 2011 he was portrayed in the HBO film Too Big to Fail by actor Topher Grace.
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