Adewale Adeyemo says Wally has been promoted to the position of Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury, if and only if the Senate confirms it at the end of its Audition after the inauguration of president-elect Joe Biden. He will be the first native African to hold this position. The elected president of the United States made this proposal on December 1. Note that the nominee was the former economic adviser to former US President Barack Obama and served under Janet Yellen, former president of the Federal Reserve. Joe Biden's transition team said the people chosen for high-level economic positions would help “get America out of the current recession and rebuild better.”

Born in Nigeria in 1981, Adewale Adeyemo spent all her adolescence and youth in the state of California. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, before going to Yale Law School for legal training.

Adeyemo worked as the editor-in-chief of the Hamilton project, then as senior advisor and assistant chief of staff to Jack Lew for the ministry American finance worker, later working under the Obama administration. He was chief negotiator for the Trans Pacific Partnership and was also the first chief of staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, under the leadership of Elizabeth Warren.

In 2015, he was appointed Deputy National Security Advisor for the International Economy and Deputy Director of the Council & Exact; national economy. Then he became the first president of the Obama Foundation.

This lawyer close to the Democratic establishment will assist Biden, the Secretary of State for the Treasury, within the administration. With the latter, they will, among other things, be in charge of the American stock exchange and the definition of the economic, financial and monetary policy of the United States. So it was a pillar of the United States Department of Finance during the Biden era.

On his Twitter he wrote: “As Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, I can't wait to help rebuild our é Economy”.