President Donald Trump has appointed his son’s brother-in-law to oversee an Energy Department office, Newsweek reports. Kyle Yunaska has been named chief of staff of the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, Environmental & Energy Publishing reported on Wednesday.
In his new role, Yunaska will advise Executive Director Sean Cunningham and his deputy Carol Battershell, according to the Energy Department website. Yunaska was promoted from his original post as assistant to the secretary on the “beachhead” team of temporary political appointees in the Energy Department, which he joined in February, Newsweek writes.
Yunaska graduated from East Carolina University in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in management and physics. He later got a master’s in finance from the same school in 2009. After graduation, he worked for Vail Resorts from 2010 to 2011, worked as an accounting manager for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health from 2012 to 2014, and was a tax analyst for Georgetown University in 2014.
According to Newsweek, his alumni page from college doesn’t mention anything about energy or energy policy. Instead, it lists: “Team Building, Strategy, Management, Entrepreneurship, Project Planning, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Budgets, Public Speaking, Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, Event Planning, Data Analysis, Social Media, Community Outreach, Research, Analysis, Customer Satisfaction, Account Management.”
Newsweek adds that it doesn’t come as a surprise that a member of the extended Trump family has gotten a job with the administration. Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump serves as an adviser to the president, and her husband Jared Kushner is assistant to the president and senior adviser.
Yunaska’s sister Lara Trump works on President Trump’s re-election campaign, and the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has also been involved in politics, Newsweek notes.
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