Joe Biden has named Ron Klain, who served as the “Ebola tsar” during the Obama administration, as his chief of staff.

Klain, 59, has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump’s pandemic response. He first worked with Biden in the 1980s.

In a statement sharing the news, the president-elect praised Klain’s “deep, varied experience”.

“Ron has been invaluable to me over the many years that we have worked together, including as we rescued the American economy from one of the worst downturns in our history in 2009 and later overcame a daunting public health emergency in 2014,” said Biden. “His deep, varied experience and capacity to work with people all across the political spectrum is precisely what I need in a White House chief of staff as we