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Biography of Neel Kashkari

Neel Kashkari

 

Neel Kashkari--Assistant Secretary for International Economics and Development at the Treasury Department

  

Neel Kashkari currently serves as assistant secretary for international economics and development at the Treasury; in that role, Kashkari also acts as Senior Advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. He provides counsel to the Secretary on key policy matters. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is expected to name Neel Kashkari to oversee the U.S. government's $700 billion financial stabilization program this week.

 

Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Kashkari was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in San Francisco, where he led Goldman's IT Security Investment Banking practice, advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions. Prior to his career in finance, Mr. Kashkari was a R&D Principal Investigator at TRW in Redondo Beach, California where he developed technology for NASA space science missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

 

Originally from Stow, Ohio, Mr. Kashkari graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s and Master's degree in Engineering. He also received an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School. Mr. Kashkari and his wife Minal maintain residences in Maryland and California.

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Neel Kashkari--From Treasury.gov

Paulson to Name Kashkari to Oversee Bailout, WSJ Says--Bloomberg, Oct. 5, 2008

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