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US President-elect, Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born attorney, Adewale Adeyemo, as Deputy Treasury Secretary
This announcement was disclosed by the Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa in a tweet on Monday, confirming the appointment of the former senior international economic adviser during the Obama administration.
“It’s official! Wale Adeyemo becomes the first-ever Nigerian American Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury, in the history of the country!! Congrats to Wale, #proudlyNigerian” Dabiri-Erewa tweeted
Adeyemo will serve under former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who Biden plans to appoint to lead the US Treasury Department.
Born in Nigeria, Adeyemo was raised in California where he got a bachelor’s degree before proceeding to Yale Law School for his legal education.
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, before his appointment into the Obama administration.
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 going 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.
According to Straits Times, a Singaporean publication, a Singaporean woman, who was infected with COVID-19 during pregnancy, has given birth to a baby earlier in November with antibodies against the […]
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