Brian Deese
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2021-01-22 Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Economic Director Brian Deese
2021-01-22 Biden’s economic chief Deese warns of ‘very serious economic hole’ Conservatives concerned about the ballooning national debt have said they are unwilling to pass the huge bill, which comes on the heels of a $900 billion bailout Congress passed just last month.
“Our economy is at a very precious moment,” Deese said in the James S. Brady briefing room. “We are 10 million jobs short still of where the economy was when this pandemic started last year,” he said. “If we don’t act now, we will be in a much worse place and we will find ourselves needing to do much more to dig out of a much deeper hole,” he went on.
2021-01-21 National Economic Council Director Brian Deese Remarks at U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, discussed President Biden’s COVID-19 economic relief plan at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ winter meeting. Also speaking at the virtual event was White House Intergovernmental Affairs Director Julie Chavez Rodriguez. Following opening remarks, mayors took part in a question and answer session with the Biden administration officials
2021-01-12 Who is Brian Deese? President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Brian Deese, global head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock Inc. (BLK), as director of the National Economic Council (NEC).1https://183c3e75caee86abc7d378c6112873df.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
In his new role, Deese will be responsible for the coordination of policy-making on both domestic and international economic issues. THE NEC provides economic policy advice to the president, ensuring that policy decisions and programs are in line with the president’s economic goals.2
As head of BlackRock’s Sustainable Investing division since 2017, Deese advised clients on how to achieve investment returns that meet environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria.3
Immediately prior to joining BlackRock, Deese was a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served as a White House senior advisor to President Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017. Between 2009 and 2015 he held several positions at the White House, including as special assistant for economic policy to President Obama following the 2008 financial crisis, as deputy director of the NEC, and as deputy director and acting director of the Office of Management and Budget
2021-01-10 Kamala Harris Picks Member of World’s Largest Asset Firm as Top Economic Adviser In March 2016, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink began hiring a “shadow government” of Democratic operatives and economic policy wonks. The reasoning was transparent: this coterie of revolvers would safeguard BlackRock’s interests in Washington whether or not Larry Fink was ultimately named Treasury Secretary, a role to which he long aspired and for which Barack Obama had already considered him.
Though Clinton ultimately lost the election, Fink continued hiring Democratic operatives and remained personally involved in party politics. Now, as Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House, members of the BlackRock “shadow government” are queued up for major policy roles. They include Brian Deese, who will be the next National Economic Council director, and Wally Adeyemo, who will be a top aide to Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen. Yet the BlackRock figure set to join the administration with the deepest ties to both the firm and the neoliberal economic policies it benefits from won’t be serving in the White House at all, but rather as the top economic aide to Biden’s potential successor.
2020-12-03 Biden Names BlackRock’s Brian Deese As His Top Economic Aide President-elect Joe Biden has tapped former Obama aide Brian Deese as director of the National Economic Council, his top economic adviser at the White House. Deese helped former President Barack Obama rescue the auto industry during the 2009 economic crisis and played a key role in negotiating the Paris climate accords.
But the pick raised the ire of some progressive groups even before it was made official Thursday because of Deese’s work for BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. After his service in the Obama administration, Deese became the global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock. Progressive groups say the investment firm holds financial stakes in energy companies that contribute to climate change.
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