Born in Nigeria and raised in Southern California, Adeyemo, if confirmed, would be the first African American Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
\nAdeyemo, a Hyde Park resident, joined the Obama Foundation in August 2019 as its first president.He joined to the foundation after serving in a variety of positions in the Obama administration. After leaving the White House, he signed on as a senior adviser at BlackRock, the global investment firm, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n
During the tenure of President Barack Obama, Adeyemo was the deputy director of the National Economic Council;The assistant secretary for international markets and development at the Treasury Department; deputy chief of staff of the Treasury Department in 2012;<\/p>\n
Chief of staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for 16 months, starting in 2010.<\/p>\n
Adeyemo received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.According to the Obama Foundation, Adeyemo\u2019s salary was $600,000.<\/p>\n
The Adeyemo appointment came as part of Biden\u2019s unveiling on Monday of his economic team, where he highlighted the historic nature of some of his nominations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":26410,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-26407","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26408,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26407\/revisions\/26408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=26407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}