Erskine Bowles joins Facebook board

Facebook has added another Washington hand to its leadership team: Erskine Bowles, former White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton, has joined the Facebook board of directors.

Bowles now serves as president emeritus of the 17-campus University of North Carolina system and recently was co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Bowles was the White House chief of staff from 1996 through 1998 and also served as a member of both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg served as chief of staff for the Treasury Department under Clinton. Bowles joins Facebook’s growing board. The company added Reed Hastings, Netflix chief executive earlier this summer. Other board members include Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, Donald E. Graham of The Washington Post Company, and Peter Thiel of Clarium Capital and Founders Fund.