Neal Wolin | |
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Chair of the Intelligence Oversight Board | |
Assumed office May 24, 2015 |
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President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Dan Meltzer |
United States Secretary of the Treasury Acting |
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In office January 25, 2013 – February 28, 2013 |
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President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Timothy Geithner |
Succeeded by | Jack Lew |
United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury | |
In office May 18, 2009 – August 31, 2013 |
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President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Robert Kimmitt |
Succeeded by | Mary Miller (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born |
Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
December 9, 1961
Political party | Democratic |
Education |
Yale University (BA, JD) Balliol College, Oxford (MS) |
Neal Steven Wolin (born December 9, 1961) is the former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and was the acting United States Secretary of the Treasury, pending confirmation of Jack Lew, President Obama's nominee to succeed previous secretary Timothy Geithner.
On July 22, 2013, the White House announced that Mr. Wolin would resign effective the end of August 2013. The Treasury Department later released its own statement.
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.
Wolin was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. His father, Harry S. Wolin, was a lawyer; and his mother, Doris Wolin, worked for the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago as a director of the Israel Experience, a program that assists young Jews to visit Israel. Wolin also has a sister named Karen Wolin who graduated from Brown University in 1987. Karen later went on to become a doctor. Wolin graduated with a B.A. in history, graduating summa cum laude from Yale University, where he was President of the Yale Political Union. He then earned a M.S. in development economics from Oxford University as a Charles and Julia Henry Fellow; and then earned a J.D. from Yale University.