Adam Szubin

Adam Szubin
United States Secretary of the Treasury
Acting
In office
January 20, 2017 – February 13, 2017
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byJack Lew
Succeeded bySteven Mnuchin
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
Acting
In office
April 16, 2015 – February 13, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded byDavid Cohen
Succeeded bySigal Mandelker
Personal details
Born1972 or 1973 (age 51–52)
Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseMiriam Szubin
Children3
EducationHarvard University (BA, JD)

Adam Jacob Szubin (/ˈzbɪn/) is an American lawyer and former government official. Szubin served as the Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and the Acting Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He served as the acting secretary from January to February 2017 after the resignation of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin during the 2017 presidential transition. He previously served as the Director of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

He is currently a Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University and a lawyer in private practice at Sullivan & Cromwell in D.C.