David A. Kessler MD

DAVID A. KESSLER, M.D., served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Dr. Kessler, a pediatrician, has been the dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco. He co-chaired President Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board and was head of Operation Warp Speed, the government program to develop and promote COVID-19 vaccines and other treatments. A graduate of Amherst College, the University of Chicago Law School, and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kessler is the father of two grown children and lives with his wife in California.