Jack Lew

Jack Lew
Official portrait, 2023
United States Ambassador to Israel
Incumbent
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 (1955-08-29) August 29, 1955 (age 68) 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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Jack Lew's voice Lew testifies on the FY2015 federal budget before the House Ways and Means Committee Recorded March 6, 2014

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]