U.S president elect Joe Biden to appoint Nigerian-born attorney as Deputy Treasury Secretary
United States President-elect, Joe Biden,
has selected a Nigerian-born attorney, Adewale Adeyemo, as the Deputy Treasury
Secretary.
This was disclosed
by Biden on Sunday, according to Wall Street Journal.
Adeyemo’s appointment is one of
many key cabinet positions Biden is expected to announce in the coming days.
Born in Nigeria, Adeyemo was raised in
California where he obtained a bachelor’s degree before proceeding to Yale Law
School for his legal education.
Before his appointment into the
Obama administration, Adeyemo worked as an editor at the Hamilton Project, then
served as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to Jack Lew in the United
States Department of Treasury.
He later worked as the chief
negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and also served as the first chief
of staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Elizabeth Warren.
In 2015, he was appointed to concurrently serve
as Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and deputy
director of the National Economic Council.
He went on to become the first
president of the Obama Foundation.
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