When the position of chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors was vacated in December 2007, Edward E. Kaufman was the senior member of the board, having been chosen as a charter member by President Clinton in 1995. Kaufman earned a BSME degree from Duke University and an MBA from the Wharton School. He spent seven years working for the DuPont Company and then 22 years as the chief of staff for Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE). Kaufman is also a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke.