Did you know First Black American to hold US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury position is Yoruba man

Adewale O. “Wally” Adeyemo is a Nigerian-American top US official who was born on May 20, 1981, in the ancient city of Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria.

Adewale Adeyemo a.k.a ‘Wally’, was raised in California, United States of America. His father was a teacher and his mother was a nurse.

After graduating from Eisenhower High School in Rialto, California in 1999, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2004, from the University of California, Berkeley, and moved to earn a juris doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2009.

Adeyemo was on March 25, 2021, confirmed by the US Senate, as the 15th Deputy Secretary of the United States Treasury. The first black African-American to hold the position.

The record breaker Adeyemo on August 1, 2019, was selected as the first President of the Obama Foundation and also served during the Obama administration as the deputy national security advisor for international economics from 2015 to 2016 and deputy director of the National Economic Council.

Wally also served as the first chief of staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Elizabeth Warren.

Adeyemo served as the director of African American outreach for the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign in California and was based in the San Francisco office.

Adeyemo worked as an editor at the Hamilton Project when he joined the Obama administration, he then served as senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to Jack Lew in the United States Department of the Treasury.

Adeyemo later worked as a negotiator on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.