Michael Mundaca | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy | |
| In office March 2010 –May 2011 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Eric Solomon |
| Succeeded by | Mark Mazur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | New York City,New York,U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) University of Chicago (MA) University of California,Berkeley (JD) University of Miami (LLM) |
Michael F. Mundaca is an American tax lawyer who served as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Mundaca was born in Staten Island,New York City,where his father,a Chilean immigrant,worked for the United States Postal Service. [1]
He received his B.A. in philosophy and physics from Columbia University in 1986, [2] and a M.A. from the University of Chicago. [3] He received a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1992,where he was the senior executive editor of the California Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. [4] He also received a LL.M. from the University of Miami School of Law. [3]
Mundaca began his career as an associate at Sullivan &Cromwell's office in New York City. From 1997 to 2002,he worked in the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Tax Policy,leaving as Deputy International Tax Counsel. [5] He later joined the accounting firm,Ernst &Young,as a partner in the practice's International Tax Services group from 2002 to 2007. In 2007,he rejoined the Treasury Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs. [6] [7] In September 2009,President Barack Obama picked Mundaca as Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy after Elizabeth Garrett withdrew her nomination. [8] He was confirmed in March 2010 and served in the position until May 2011, [9] when he left the agency to rejoin Ernst &Young,where he has been the leader of the firm's U.S. National Tax Department. [10]
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Daschle is an American politician and lobbyist who represented South Dakota in the United States Senate from 1987 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party,he led the Senate Democratic Caucus during the final ten years of his tenure,during which time he served as Senate Minority Leader and Majority Leader.
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States,where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the U.S. Mint. These two agencies are responsible for printing all paper currency and minting coins,while the treasury executes currency circulation in the domestic fiscal system. The USDT collects all federal taxes through the Internal Revenue Service;manages U.S. government debt instruments;licenses and supervises banks and thrift institutions;and advises the legislative and executive branches on matters of fiscal policy. The department is administered by the secretary of the treasury,who is a member of the Cabinet. The treasurer of the United States has limited statutory duties,but advises the Secretary on various matters such as coinage and currency production. Signatures of both officials appear on all Federal Reserve notes.
Michael Bert Thornton is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.
Jacob Joseph Lew is an American attorney and politician who served as 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 director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Clinton administration and Obama administration.
Thomas Edward Perez is an American politician and attorney currently serving as senior advisor to the president of the United States and director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs,holding both positions since June 2023. Perez previously served as the United States secretary of labor (2013–2017),the chair of the Democratic National Committee (2017–2021),and United States assistant attorney general for civil rights (2009–2013).
Michael Braverman Goodman Froman is an American lawyer who is the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Froman served as the U.S. Trade Representative from 2013 to 2017. He was Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs,a position held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States sherpa to the G7,G8,and G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2,2013,President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19,2013.
Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen is an American lawyer and the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Constitutional law,on the faculty at Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington,Indiana. She previously served in the Biden administration as Acting Attorney General at the Office of Legal Counsel,having been appointed on January 20,2021 by President Joe Biden,to return to the role she previously held in the Clinton administration. She was succeeded in that role in a permanent capacity by Christopher H. Schroeder,and is currently serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the same office
The first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency began on January 20,2009,the day Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States. The first 100 days of a presidential term took on symbolic significance during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term in office,and the period is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president. The 100th day of his presidency ended at noon on April 30,2009. Obama stated that he should not be judged just by his first hundred days:"The first hundred days is going to be important,but it’s probably going to be the first thousand days that makes the difference." Obama began to formally create his presidential footprint during his first 100 days. Obama quickly began attempting to foster support for his economic stimulus package,American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The bill passed in the House on January 28,2009,by a 244–188 vote,and it passed in the Senate on February 10 by a 61–37 margin.
Timothy Franz Geithner is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009,following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014,he has served as president and managing director of Warburg Pincus,a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.
Barack Obama assumed office as President of the United States on January 20,2009,and his term ended on January 20,2017. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Goodwin Hon Liu is an American lawyer,educator and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. Before his appointment by California Governor Jerry Brown,Liu was Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California,Berkeley School of Law. Liu has been recognized for his writing on constitutional law,education policy,civil rights,and the Supreme Court.
Michael S. Barr is an American legal scholar who has been the second vice chair of the Federal Reserve for supervision since 2022. From 2009 to 2011,he was assistant secretary of the treasury for financial institutions under President Barack Obama.
Patty Shwartz is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Mark A. Weinberger is an American businessman. He is the former global Chairman and CEO of EY. Weinberger currently sits on several boards of directors,including those of Metlife,Johnson &Johnson and Saudi Aramco. Earlier in his career he has also held several posts in the public sector in Washington,D.C.,including time as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.
Nani A. Coloretti is an American policy advisor who is currently serving as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Coloretti served as United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017. Following her service as deputy secretary,she became senior vice president for financial and business strategy and treasurer at the Urban Institute.
Marshall Billingslea is a former Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing at the United States Department of the Treasury. He was the Trump Administration's nominee to be Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs,and he previously served as a U.S. Senate staffer and as a Department of Defense official.
Adewale O. "Wally" Adeyemo is an American government official serving as the United States deputy secretary of the treasury. He was 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.
Donald Cyril Lubick was an American attorney and tax policy expert. He served every Democratic President—from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama—and was the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the Department of the Treasury under both President Carter and President Clinton.
Lily Lawrence Batchelder is the Robert C. Kopple Family Professor of Taxation at New York University and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for tax policy since September 2021. She was the former chief tax counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee under the Obama administration and appointed to head Joe Biden’s IRS transition team.
Rhea Suh is a former government official who served as Assistant Secretary for Policy,Management and Budget of the United States Department of the Interior from 2009 to 2014 and president of the Natural Resources Defense Council from 2015 to 2019.
 | This biography of a person who has held a non-elected position in the federal government of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |