Jack Lew
Jacob J. "Jack" Lew ( born August 29, 1955 in New York) is an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party). Under President Bill Clinton, he was Director of the Office of Management and Budget, under Barack Obama, first deputy foreign minister for the area of management and budgeting; from 18 November 2010, he belonged to the Cabinet as Obama's director of the Office of Management and Budget to, before joining 27 January 2012 to the post of Chief of Staff in the White House. He previously worked among other things as a lawyer, university lecturer and business manager. Until January 25, 2013 Lew held the position of Chief of Staff in the White House. Since February 28, 2013, is the new finance minister.
Life
Jacob Lew, was born in 1955 as the child of Jewish immigrants from Poland in Queens, New York City. The family of his father, Irving Lew, was after the end of the First World War, his mother's family, Ruth (born Turoff ), immigrated several years earlier from Poland to the United States. Irving Lew worked as a lawyer and antiquarian book, Ruth ( Turoff ) Lew as an office manager of a law firm.
Jacob Lew attended public schools and studied after graduating from Forest Hills High School ( FHHS ) in Queens, New York in 1972, first at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, but then moved on to Harvard University, where in 1978 the Bachelor received level (BA).
After completing school in 1973, he was until the completion of studies in 1979 auxiliary power for the legislative process in Congress. Subsequently, he served from 1979 to 1987 as a domestic policy advisor to Tip O'Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House. At the same time he completed a postgraduate course in law at Georgetown University ( Law Center ) and graduated in 1983 with degree of Juris Doctor ( JD ) from. After qualifying as a lawyer in the state of Massachusetts from 1988 to 1993 he was a partner of the law firm Van Ness, Feldman & Curtis. In 1993 he joined the government service and was special assistant to President Clinton for the Corporation for National and Community Service ( AmeriCorps ) in the White House staff. Subsequently, he was first Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and finally on 21 May 1998 even the director of this federal authority. So Jacob Lew was a member of the extended cabinet of President Clinton until the end of his presidency on January 20, 2001.
After his retirement from government service, he took in 2001 to a reputation as a Professor of Public Administration at New York University and was at the same time from 2001 to 2006 Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO ) of the New York University. He was also a 2004-2008 board member of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Between 2006 and 2009 he was also an employee of Citigroup initially as COO for Global Prosperity Management ( Global Wealth Management) and then from 2008 to 2009 as COO for investment alternative (Alternative Investment ). He also was a board member of the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Council on Foreign Relations.
After the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president he was in January 2009 with James Steinberg Deputy Secretary of State ( Deputy Secretary of State ) and as such was responsible for management and budget planning at the State Department. On 13 July 2010 he was again nominated as director of the Office of Management and Budget, after the current incumbent Peter R. Orszag announced his resignation on July 30, 2010. The confirmation by the Senate took place on 18 November of the same year. During the vacancy since Orszag's resignation Jeffrey Zients had the authority managed temporarily.
Following the resignation of William M. Daley as chief of staff of the White House Lew came in late January 2012 to its successor.
On January 10, 2013 President Obama nominated Lew to the post of finance minister. On February 28, 2013, the Senate confirmed his nomination. There is thus appear ex officio his signature on newly printed dollar bills, a curious debate about Lew's " ridiculous " and supposedly from " too many donuts " existing signature relaxing. President Obama promised then jokingly to work towards that Lew had to change his signature to the effect that at least one letter of his name is recognizable. Then Lew actually changed his signature.
Private
Lew is married with two children and a member of the Orthodox Jewish community.