Ryan, who’d joined Gov. Mitt Romney’s ticket as the vice presidential candidate in 2012, will serve on the council with Steve Israel, a former Democratic congressman from New York who ran his party’s congressional campaign committee; Makan Delrahim, a former U.S. assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division; Chris Brummer, a Georgetown University professor who established DC Fintech Week; and current and former officials from the League of Conservation Voters, Electronic Frontier Foundation and National Bankers Association.