Jack Lew
Jack Lew | |
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Official portrait, 2023 | |
| United States Ambassador to Israel | |
| In office November 5, 2023 – January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Thomas R. Nides |
| Succeeded by | Mike Huckabee |
| 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 |
| Preceded by | Bill 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 | Jeff Zients (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Jeff Zients (acting) |
| In office May 21, 1998 – January 19, 2001 Acting: May 21, 1998 – July 31, 1998 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Deputy | Joshua Gotbaum (acting) Sylvia Mathews Burwell |
| Preceded by | Franklin Raines |
| Succeeded by | Mitch Daniels |
| 1st 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 |
| Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget | |
| In office August 1995 – July 31, 1998 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John Koskinen |
| Succeeded by | Sylvia Mathews Burwell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jacob Joseph Lew August 29, 1955 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Ruth Schwartz |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Carleton College (attended) Harvard University (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
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Jacob Joseph Lew (born August 29, 1955) is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the 28th United States ambassador to Israel from 2023 to 2025. He was the 76th United States secretary of the treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the 25th 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.
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, Lew was nominated to replace retiring Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, 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, 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.