American President-Elect, Joe Biden, has appointed Nigerian-born American attorney Adewale Adeyemo as deputy secretary of the treasury department.
On Sunday, a US-based leading media channel, Politico reported that Adewale Adeyemo, a former senior international economic adviser during the Barrack Obama‘s istration, to serve as Ms. Yellen’s top deputy at the Treasury Department.’
With the recent appointment of Adewale ” Wally ” Adeyemo, this means that he will serve as the number 2 person in charge of government revenue.
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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 istration, 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.
According to Politico, Biden is also expected to name Cecilia Rouse, an African American economist at Princeton University, to lead the Council of Economic Advisers.
