Meet Nigerian-Born Adewale Adeyemo, Prospective U.S Deputy Treasury Secretary

US President-Elect, Joe Biden, has appointed Nigerian-born attorney, Adewale ‘Wally’ Adeyemo, as Deputy Treasury Secretary. This is reported by US-based media Politico on Sunday.

Here are few things to know about him:

1. He was born in Nigeria but raised in California.
2. He got his legal education from Yale Law School after bagging a bachelor’s degree in California.
3. Adeyemo is also an economist and he is a former senior international economic adviser during the Obama administration.
4. He previously worked as an editor at the Hamilton Project.
5. The attorney also as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to Jack Lew in the United States Department of Treasury.
6. He moved on to become the chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
7. He graciously served as the first chief of staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Elizabeth Warren.
8. In 2015, he was appointed to concurrently serve as Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council.
9.  Adeyemo is the first president of the Obama Foundation (2019)
10. He will serve under former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. Biden selected Yellen as head the US Treasury Department.