Brian Deese

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Brian Deese
Born 1978 (age 33–34)

Brian Deese works at the National Economic Council and is special assistant to the president for economic policy. Previously, he served as a member of the Economic Policy Working Group for the Obama-Biden transition.[1] He emerged as "one of the most influential voices" in the Obama Administration relative to the auto industry, and specifically the Chrysler and GM workouts.[2] He has appeared in videos posted on change.gov by the transition team.[3] Before joining the transition team, he was deputy economic policy director for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign[4] and, before that, for Gene Sperling in the 2008 Clinton campaign.[2] He graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 with a degree in Political Science[5] and from Yale Law School in 2009. Previously, he was a senior policy analyst for economic policy at the Center for American Progress.[6] Deese also worked as a research assistant at the Center for Global Development,[7] hired by founder Nancy Birdsall, according to The New York Times,[2] where he co-authored the book Delivering on Debt Relief. In November of 2011, Deese was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people. [8]

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