Joe Biden is set to announce a Nigerian-born attorney and former senior International economic adviser during the Obama administration Adewale Adeyemo as deputy Treasury secretary as reported by US-based media politico on Sunday.
Adeyemo will serve under former federal reserve chair Janet Yellen, who Biden plans to appoint the lead the US Treasury Department. His appointment is one of many key cabinet positions Biden is expected to announce in coming days.
He was born in Nigeria and 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 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.
According to Politico, Biden is also expected to name Cecilia Rouse, an African American economist at Princeton University to lead the council of Economic Adviser.
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