Neal S. Wolin

Neal S. Wolin
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2009
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Robert M. Kimmitt

Neal Steven Wolin (born December 9, 1961)^[1] is the current United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

Wolin was nominated by President Barack Obama in March 2009 and confirmed in May 2009. Prior to his confirmation as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, he was Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President for Economic Policy in the Obama White House.

Wolin previously spent eight years serving in the Clinton administration, including as general counsel and deputy general counsel at the Treasury and on the staff of the United States National Security Council.

Career

Wolin received a B.A. degree in history, summa cum laude, from Yale College; a Master of Science in Development Economics from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School where he was a Coker Teaching Fellow.​

After law school, Wolin served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson in Brooklyn, New York and taught as an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. Wolin also worked at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.

From 1999 to January 2001, Wolin served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Secretary Lawrence Summers. He served as the Deputy General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury from 1995 to 1999 under Secretary Robert Rubin. In January 2001, Summers gave Wolin the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest honor awarded to a Treasury official.

He previously served in the Clinton White House as the Deputy Legal Advisor to the National Security Council. Wolin has also served as Special Assistant to three Directors of Central Intelligence: William H. Webster, Robert Gates, and R. James Woolsey, Jr. He also worked as executive assistant for National Security Advisor Anthony Lake and Deputy National Security Advisor Sandy Berger.

In early 2001, Wolin was a visiting fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct assistant professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In March 2001, he joined The Hartford Financial Services Group as executive vice president and general counsel, with responsibility for the company's legal, government affairs, tax, communications, and marketing. In 2007, he became the president and chief operating officer of the company's property and casualty insurance subsidiaries.

Wolin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

References

1. ^ Marquis Who's Who on the Web

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Preceded by Robert M. Kimmitt	United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury May 2009 – Present	Succeeded by Incumbent

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Name	Wolin, Neal S.
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Date of birth	December 9, 1961
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