US President-elect Joe Biden has named Sameera Fazili as Deputy Director of National Economic Council at the White House, the Biden-Harris Transition announced on Friday, PTI reported. Fazili, an Indian-American community and economic development expert, is the second person of Kashmiri-origin to be picked by Biden for a key White House position.

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In December, Aisha Shah was named as Partnerships Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy.

The National Economic Council coordinates the economic policy-making process and provides economic policy advice to the US president.

Fazili is currently the Economic Agency lead on the Biden-Harris Transition. She was earlier posted at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where she served as the Director of Engagement for Community and Economic Development.

In the Obama-Biden administration, Fazili served as a senior policy advisor on the White House’s National Economic Council and as a senior advisor at the US Treasury Department in both Domestic Finance and International Affairs.

Before that, she was a clinical lecturer of law at Yale Law School.

Originally from Buffalo, she now lives in Georgia with her husband and three children.

She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Harvard College. She received her law degree from Yale Law School and her bachelor of arts in social studies from Harvard College.

Before her time in government, Fazili was a clinical lecturer at Yale Law School’s community and economic development clinic, where she helped start a CDFI bank and a local anti-foreclosure initiative, and expanded the clinic’s work to international microfinance.

She also worked at ShoreBank, the nation’s first CDFI (community development financial institution) bank. Her work in finance has spanned consumer, housing, small business and microfinance.

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Biden has chosen a diverse team, with several Indian-origin members. The most prominent among them is Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, whose mother hailed from Tamil Nadu.