Jack Lew | |
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 Official portrait, 2023 | |
| United States Ambassador to Israel | |
| Assumed office November 5, 2023 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Stephanie Hallett (interim) |
| 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury | |
| In office February 28, 2013 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Neal S. Wolin Mary J. Miller (acting) Sarah Bloom Raskin |
| Preceded by | Timothy Geithner |
| Succeeded by | Steven Mnuchin |
| 25th White House Chief of Staff | |
| In office January 27, 2012 – January 20, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Alyssa Mastromonaco Nancy-Ann DeParle Mark B. Childress |
| Preceded by | William M. Daley |
| Succeeded by | Denis McDonough |
| 32nd and 38th Director of the Office of Management and Budget | |
| In office November 18, 2010 – January 27, 2012 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Jeffrey Liebman (acting) Heather Higginbottom |
| Preceded by | Peter R. Orszag |
| Succeeded by | Sylvia Mathews Burwell |
| In office July 31, 1998 – January 19, 2001 Acting: May 21, 1998 – July 31, 1998 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Deputy | Joshua Gotbaum (acting) Sylvia M. Mathews |
| Preceded by | Franklin Raines |
| Succeeded by | Mitch Daniels |
| 1st United States Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources | |
| In office January 28, 2009 – November 18, 2010 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Thomas R. Nides |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jacob Joseph Lew August 29, 1955 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Ruth Schwartz |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
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Jacob Joseph Lew (born August 29, 1955) is an American attorney and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Israel. He was the seventy-sixth United States secretary of the treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the twenty-fifth White House chief of staff from 2012 to 2013 and as director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Clinton administration and Obama administration.
Born in New York City, Lew was educated at Harvard College and the Georgetown University Law Center. He began his legal career as a legislative assistant to Representative Joe Moakley, and as a senior policy adviser to former House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Lew then worked as an attorney in private practice before joining Boston's office of management and budget as a deputy. In 1993, he began work for the Clinton administration as a special assistant to the president. In 1994, Lew served as associate director for legislative affairs and deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, then served as the agency's director, from 1998 to 2001. Following his work in the Clinton administration, Lew became executive vice-president of operations at New York University, serving from 2001 to 2006, then the COO at Citigroup, from 2006 to 2008. During the Obama administration, Lew served as the first deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2009 to 2010, before returning to his former post of OMB Director from 2010 to 2012. He then served as chief of staff for the remainder of President Barack Obama’s first term from 2012 to 2013.
On January 10, 2013, during Obama's second term, Lew was nominated to replace retiring Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner,[1] was confirmed by the Senate February 27, 2013, and then sworn in on the following day, serving until the conclusion of the Obama administration. Since 2017, he has been a managing partner at Lindsay Goldberg,[2] a private equity firm headquartered in New York City. He is currently a visiting professor at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University.[3]
On September 5, 2023, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Lew to serve as United States ambassador to Israel.[4] His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 31, 2023.[5]
- ^ Jackie Calmes (January 10, 2013). "Lew Would Complete Transformation of Obama's Economic Team". The New York Times. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
- ^ "Team | Lindsay Goldberg". April 10, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ "Former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on why the debt ceiling matters". The Journalist's Resource. October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
- ^ "President Biden Announces Jacob J Lew as Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the State of Israel". The White House. September 5, 2023. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
- ^ "U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 118th Congress - 1st Session". www.senate.gov. Retrieved January 22, 2024.