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Deputy Secretary Wolin’s trip will highlight U.S.-African partnerships.
Deputy Secretary Wolin’s trip will highlight U.S.-African partnerships.

DEPUTY TREASURY SECRETARY WOLIN TO VISIT RWANDA, TANZANIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

October 22, 2009

Trip to Highlight Importance of Continent’s Key Economic Growth Issues, Including Infrastructure, Food Security and Investment

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced that Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin will travel to Africa from October 28 - November 5, 2009. The Deputy Secretary will meet with senior government officials in Kigali, Rwanda; Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; and Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa to discuss strategies to reduce poverty and drive economic growth in the region.

“The global financial crisis proved – if anyone still doubted it – that the economies of the world are inextricably intertwined,” said Deputy Secretary Wolin. “This trip will serve as an important opportunity for us to engage with our partners in Africa and to discuss how we can best work together to promote strong, sustainable growth in years to come.”

Deputy Secretary Wolin’s trip will highlight U.S.-African partnerships, including President Obama’s commitment to advance food security and sustainable agricultural-led growth through country-owned strategies, as well as with respect to bolstering infrastructure, strengthening the financial sector, and improving the investment climate. The U.S. provides substantial development assistance in these areas through the work of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the U.S. Agency for International Development, as well as through its leadership at and funding for the World Bank and African Development Bank.

The visit marks the first trip to Africa by a senior Treasury official during the Obama Administration. Additional details regarding the Deputy Secretary’s schedule will be made available in the days ahead.

U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 21, 2009
CONTACT: Natalie Wyeth, Treasury Public Affairs (202) 622-2960

 
INVITATION

A Wits Business School Distinguished Guest presentation by Neil Wolin
  
“Global Crisis to Global Recovery: How Partnerships between the US and Sub-Saharan Africa Can Promote Long-Term Growth on the Continent”

Date:
Wednesday, 04 November 2009 
Time:
08:00 for 8:30 to 9:30                    
Location:
Donald Gordon Auditorium, Wits Business School
RSVP:
Lwazi Ndlovu, 011 717-3674 or Lwazi.Ndlovu@wits.ac.za
by Friday, 30 October 2009

Your invitation

Biography

Neal S. Wolin is the Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Treasury, a position for which he was confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 2009. Prior to his confirmation as Deputy Secretary, Mr. Wolin served in the Obama White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President for Economic Policy. 

Before joining the Obama Administration, Mr. Wolin was the President and Chief Operating Officer for Property & Casualty Operations at The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. He previously served as General Counsel of The Hartford from 2001 to 2007.

From 1999 to January 2001, Mr. Wolin served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He served as the Deputy General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury from 1995 to 1999. He previously served in the Clinton White House as the Deputy Legal Advisor to the National Security Council and as Executive Assistant to the National Security Advisor.  Mr. Wolin has also served as Special Assistant to three Directors of Central Intelligence.

Before joining the federal government, Mr. Wolin practiced law in Washington, D.C. with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering. He received a B.A. degree in history, summa cum laude, from Yale College; a Master of Science in Development Economics from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He served as law clerk for United States District Judge Eugene H. Nickerson in the Eastern District of New York.