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| Adewale Adeyemo |
President
Barack Obama has installed Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, a Nigerian/American who has
served in top capacity roles at the Treasury Department, to succeed Ms. Caroline
Atkinson as his deputy national security adviser for international economic
affairs.
Adewale
Adeyemo aged 34 recently joined the White House’s National Economic Council as
deputy director from the Treasury, where he had served as the deputy chief of
staff to Secretary Jacob Lew. He was also the Treasury’s lead negotiator on the
currency agreement that was part of the Pacific trade deal.
He
replaces Ms. Atkinson who has served in the current post since June 2013, a
position that includes coordinating U.S. participation in the annual summits of
the Group of 20 and Group of Seven countries. Ms. Atkinson also played key
roles in the recently concluded climate negotiations in Paris and in pushing
the White House’s trade agenda, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade
agreement.
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