Brian Deese

Brian Deese
Director of the National Economic Council
In office
January 20, 2021 – February 21, 2023
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byLarry Kudlow
Succeeded byLael Brainard
Senior Advisor to the President
In office
February 23, 2015 – January 20, 2017
Serving with Shailagh Murray
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byPete Rouse
Succeeded byJared Kushner
Stephen Miller
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Acting
In office
June 9, 2014 – July 28, 2014
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded bySylvia Mathews Burwell
Succeeded byShaun Donovan
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget
In office
June 27, 2013 – February 13, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byHeather Higginbottom
Succeeded byRussell Vought
Personal details
Born
Brian Christopher Deese

(1978-02-17) February 17, 1978 (age 46)
Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Kara Arsenault
(m. 2017)
EducationMiddlebury College (BA)
Yale University (JD)

Brian Christopher Deese (born February 17, 1978) is an American economic and political advisor who was the 13th director of the National Economic Council, serving under President Joe Biden.[1]

He previously served as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama.[2] Earlier in the Obama administration, Deese served as the deputy director and acting director of the Office of Management and Budget. Deese also served as deputy director, and later director, of the National Economic Council.[3] Deese was the Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock.

  1. ^ Joe Biden (December 3, 2020). "Deese to be Biden's top White House economic adviser - Introducing Brian Deese as Director of the National Economic Council". Politico. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2020 – via YouTube.
  2. ^ "Brian Deese". Rocky Mountain Institute. Archived from the original on December 19, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  3. ^ "Brian Deese". Washington Post politics. Archived from the original on December 19, 2018. Retrieved December 18, 2018.