President Barack Obama has appointed
Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo to be his next
Deputy National Security Adviser for
International Economic Affairs . He’ll succeed
Caroline Atkinson , who’s held the post since
June 2013.
Adeyemo, 34, has served various positions in
the U.S. Treasury department since 2009.
After becoming the Treasury’s Deputy Chief
of Staff to Secretary Jacob Lew in 2012, he
joined the White House’s National Economic
Council as deputy director this fall. He was
the Treasury’s lead negotiator on the
currency agreement that was part of the
Pacific trade deal and also worked on the
Treasury’s response to crises in Ukraine and
Greece, the Wall Street Journal reports. In
2010, he was one of the first officials
charged with standing up the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau.
Adeyemo, a second-generation Nigerian-
American who grew up in the Inland Empire
region of Southern California, gave special
thanks to his parents in a statement to the
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, And
Urban Affairs:
“While they could not be here today, I want
to acknowledge my father and mother who
immigrated to this country in search of the
American dream and the opportunity to
give my brother, sister, and me a better
life. They have worked hard, as an
elementary school principal and a nurse, to
give tremendous opportunities to their
children, but along the way, they have
instilled in us the values that guide us
every day. They often remind us that this
country affords the chance to do anything
we wanted if we work hard. And they have
taught us that we have a responsibility to
serve the community and the country that
has afforded them so many opportunities.”
He also spoke on Nelson Mandela ’s legacy
and impact on his own childhood dream to
serve in government:
“This desire to instill the value of service in
me led my father to wake me early on the
morning of February 11, 1990, to watch as
Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
Although the images on my television were
of a reality thousands of miles from our
home in California, I could feel the hope
Mandela inspired not only in South
Africans but also in my father. Watching
Nelson Mandela go from prisoner to
president and start the process of bringing
together a country was more than
inspirational, it motivated me to imagine
how I could use public service to improve
the world around me. And it continues to
remind me that events far from home can
make a meaningful difference in the lives
of Americans.”
Prior to joining the Administration, Adeyemo,
who attended Berkeley undergrad and Yale
Law, served as an Editor for the Hamilton
Project at the Brookings Institution from
2008 to 2009.
The President’s statement on Adeyemo’s
Deputy National Security Advisor selection
reads:
“I am grateful that Caroline’s work will be
carried on by Adewale ‘Wally’ Adeyemo,
who has served in my administration since
2009,” Obama says in a White White
statement. “At the Treasury Department, he
was part of the team that helped
coordinate our response to the global
recession, laying the foundation for
renewed growth at home and abroad. He
helped establish the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, and he’s been our point
person on a range of international
economic issues, including negotiations on
strong currency agreements around the
Trans Pacific Partnership. I will be calling
on Wally’s intellect, judgment and
dedication as we sustain America’s global
economic leadership, which reinforces our
national security, and as we work with
allies and partners around the world to
create jobs and opportunity for all our
people.”

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K

Who cares he is probably a puppet. Just an educated servant.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdqDjY6ehvg