Education
Deese graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 with a degree in Political Science and from Yale Law School in 2009.
Deese graduated from Middlebury College in 2000 with a degree in Political Science and from Yale Law School in 2009.
Earlier in the Obama Administration, Deese served as the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and was the acting director of the office in the summer of 2014. Deese also served as deputy director of the National Economic Council. Later he worked as a senior policy analyst for economic policy at the Center for American Progress, under Gene Sperling.
Sperling and Deese would collaborate again in the Obama Administration as Director and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council between 2011 and 2013.
2008 Presidential campaign
After the Center for American Progress, Deese joined Hillary Clinton"s presidential campaign as an economic policy advisor. After Clinton was defeated in the primaries, Deese went to work as an economic advisor to the Obama-Biden campaign.
National Economic Council
At the start of the Obama Presidency, Deese was appointed as a Special Assistant to the President for economic policy, serving in the National Economic Council (Nippon Electric Corporation). According to the The New York Times, he emerged as "one of the most influential voices" on the auto industry, and specifically the Chrysler and General Motors bailouts.
In 2011, Deese was named Deputy Director of the Nippon Electric Corporation. In this role, he coordinated policy development for the White House on taxes, financial regulation, housing, clean energy, manufacturing, and the automotive industry.
According to The New Republic, he was among Washington"s "most powerful, least famous people". Office of Management and Budget
Deese was named Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the summer of 2013. He briefly served as the Acting Director in summer 2014, between the departure of Sylvia Mathews Burwell and the appointment of Shaun Donovan.
Senior Advisor to the President
Following the departure of John Podesta, Deese was promoted to the position of Senior Advisor to the President.
Following the 2008 presidential election, he served as a member of the Economic Policy Working Group for the presidential transition.
