By Ade Jacobs
The President-elect of the United States of America (USA), Joe Biden, has appointed Nigerian-born Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, as his deputy Treasury Secretary.
Adeyemo, a 39 years old attorney was a former senior international economic adviser during the former President Barack Obama administration. He will serve under former Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen, who has been pencilled down by the incoming administration as the Treasury Secretary.
Until this recent development, Adeyemo, an economist, was the President of the Obama Foundation.
Adewale graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, before moving to Yale Law School, where he bagged his Juris Doctor (JD) for further studies in specialised law. While at Yale, he was the Co-director, project on law and education for the university.
He later joined the National Economic Council of the White House as Deputy Director, after serving at the Treasury Department, as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary Jacob Lew. He was the Treasury’s lead negotiator on the currency agreement that was part of the Pacific trade deal.