Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent has announced new senior appointments at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Alley Adcock has been named Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Appropriations and Management. Adcock previously worked as a Professional Staff Member on both the House Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee and the Senate Committee on Appropriations’ Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. She also held various positions at the House Judiciary Committee and graduated from the University of Alabama.
G. Hunter McMaster II will take on the duties of Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets. McMaster is currently Director of Policy & Planning at the Treasury Department. Before joining Treasury, he was Head of Trading at Key Square Group and held roles focusing on foreign exchange and interest rate markets at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Washington and Lee University and is originally from Columbia, South Carolina.
Luke Pettit will serve as acting Under Secretary of Domestic Finance. Pettit is currently Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at Treasury. He previously served as a senior policy adviser to Senator Bill Hagerty, worked as an economist for the Senate Banking Committee, and held positions at Bridgewater Associates and in the Federal Reserve’s Division of Monetary Affairs. Pettit holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, London School of Economics, and Johns Hopkins University.
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