WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Indian-American group and financial improvement professional Sameera Fazili to a key White House position.
Fazili has been named as Deputy Director, Nationwide Financial Council on the White Home, the Biden-Harris Transition introduced on Friday.
The Nationwide Financial Council coordinates the financial coverage making course of and supply financial coverage recommendation to the US president.
Fazili is at the moment the Financial Company lead on the Biden-Harris Transition. She was earlier posted on the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta the place she served because the Director of Engagement for Group and Financial Growth.
Fazili is the second Kashmiri-origin Indian-American appointed to a key place within the incoming Biden administration.
In December, Aisha Shah was named as Partnerships Supervisor on the White Home Workplace of Digital Technique.
Within the Obama-Biden administration, Fazili served as a senior coverage advisor on the White Home’s Nationwide Financial Council and as a senior advisor on the US Treasury Department in each Home Finance and Worldwide Affairs.
Previous to that, she was a medical lecturer of regulation at Yale Regulation Faculty. Initially from Buffalo, she now lives in Georgia together with her husband and three youngsters. Fazili is a graduate of Yale Regulation Faculty and Harvard Faculty.
Earlier than her time in authorities, Fazili was a medical lecturer at Yale Regulation Faculty’s group and financial improvement clinic, the place she helped begin a CDFI financial institution and an area anti-foreclosure initiative, and expanded the clinic’s work to worldwide microfinance.
She additionally labored at ShoreBank, the nation’s first CDFI (group improvement monetary establishment) financial institution. Her work in finance has spanned client, housing, small enterprise and microfinance.
She obtained her regulation diploma from Yale Regulation Faculty and her bachelor of arts in social research from Harvard Faculty.
Fazili has been named as Deputy Director, Nationwide Financial Council on the White Home, the Biden-Harris Transition introduced on Friday.
The Nationwide Financial Council coordinates the financial coverage making course of and supply financial coverage recommendation to the US president.
Fazili is at the moment the Financial Company lead on the Biden-Harris Transition. She was earlier posted on the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta the place she served because the Director of Engagement for Group and Financial Growth.
Fazili is the second Kashmiri-origin Indian-American appointed to a key place within the incoming Biden administration.
In December, Aisha Shah was named as Partnerships Supervisor on the White Home Workplace of Digital Technique.
Within the Obama-Biden administration, Fazili served as a senior coverage advisor on the White Home’s Nationwide Financial Council and as a senior advisor on the US Treasury Department in each Home Finance and Worldwide Affairs.
Previous to that, she was a medical lecturer of regulation at Yale Regulation Faculty. Initially from Buffalo, she now lives in Georgia together with her husband and three youngsters. Fazili is a graduate of Yale Regulation Faculty and Harvard Faculty.
Earlier than her time in authorities, Fazili was a medical lecturer at Yale Regulation Faculty’s group and financial improvement clinic, the place she helped begin a CDFI financial institution and an area anti-foreclosure initiative, and expanded the clinic’s work to worldwide microfinance.
She additionally labored at ShoreBank, the nation’s first CDFI (group improvement monetary establishment) financial institution. Her work in finance has spanned client, housing, small enterprise and microfinance.
She obtained her regulation diploma from Yale Regulation Faculty and her bachelor of arts in social research from Harvard Faculty.