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Obama’s Economic Team:

• Treasury Secretary: Timothy F. Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve.

Obama says: “Growing up partly in Africa and having lived and worked throughout Asia; having served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs – one of many roles in the international arena; and having studied both Chinese and Japanese, Tim understands the language of today’s international markets in more ways than one.”

• National Economic Council Director: Larry Summers, Treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, and former president of Harvard University.

Obama says: “Larry helped guide us through several major international financial crises – and was a central architect of the policies that led to the longest economic expansion in American history, with record surpluses, rising family incomes and more than 20 million new jobs.”

• Council of Economic Advisers Chair: Christina Romer, Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Obama says: “Christina is both a leading macroeconomist and a leading economic historian, perhaps best known for her work on America’s recovery from the Great Depression and the robust economic expansion that followed.”

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