15 Facts About Wally Adeyemo

Adewale O "Wally" Adeyemo was born on May 20,1981 and is an American attorney.

Wally Adeyemo served as the United States deputy secretary of the treasury during the Presidency of Joe Biden.

Wally Adeyemo was the first president of the Obama Foundation and served during the Obama administration as the deputy national security advisor for international economics from 2015 to 2016 and deputy director of the National Economic Council.

Wally Adeyemo's father was a teacher and his mother was a nurse.

Wally Adeyemo served as the director of African American outreach for the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign in California and was based in the San Francisco office.

Wally Adeyemo then served as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to Jack Lew in the United States Department of the Treasury.

Wally Adeyemo later worked as a negotiator on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Wally Adeyemo served as the first chief of staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Elizabeth Warren.

In November 2014, Wally Adeyemo was nominated to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets at the same time that the incumbent assistant Secretary, Marisa Lago, was nominated to be a Deputy United States Trade representative.

Wally Adeyemo appeared before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in September 2015, but the committee did not advance his nomination to the full Senate.

Wally Adeyemo was instead selected to concurrently serve as Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council in 2015, serving until 2016.

In January 13,2025, Bloomberg reported that Wally Adeyemo was joining Columbia University as a fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Center on Global Energy Policy.

In November 2020, it was announced that Wally Adeyemo would be nominated to serve as United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Biden administration.

Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo has been heavily involved in sanctions enforcement in 2022, visiting and speaking with foreign regulators to encourage their cooperation.

On June 2,2024, Wally Adeyemo wrote an article for the Financial Times headlined "We need to put sand in the gears of the Russian war machine", in the context of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.