Joe Biden picks longtime adviser Ron Klain for chief of staff

Ron Klain has been selected as Joe Biden’s chief of staff (Jacquelyn Martin/ AP File)

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen his longtime adviser Ron Klain to reprise his role as his chief of staff, installing an aide with decades of experience in the top role in his White House.

Mr Klain will lead a White House likely to be consumed by the response to the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to spread unchecked across the nation, and he will face the challenge of working with a divided Congress that could include a Republican-led Senate.