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Treasury Announces Key Staff Appointments | U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Treasury Announces Key Staff Appointments
March 2, 2021

WASHINGTON – Today, the United States Department of the Treasury announced several key
additions to Treasury sta . These distinguished and diverse individuals join Treasury
prepared to deliver results for the American people by addressing the public health crisis
and resulting economic crisis, as well as inequality, racism, and climate change.
Biographies of the appointees are listed below in alphabetical order:

B ILL DOERRER, W HITE HOUSE LIAISON
Bill Doerrer joins the Treasury Department a er serving on the Legal Policy and Personnel
teams of the Biden-Harris Transition. Prior to the transition, Doerrer was a member of the
Biden-Harris General Election campaign serving as Director of Post-Election Operations.
During the primary, Doerrer served as Biden for President’s Director of Delegate Operations
and Convention Planning, and as Operations Director for the Iowa Caucuses. Doerrer has
also served in senior political roles for several elected o icials in Illinois, including former
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. He is a graduate of Marquette University and Illinois Institute
of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, and currently resides in Chicago.

W ILLIAM A. F IELDS, SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE SECRETARY
William A. Fields is returning to the Treasury Department as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary.
He was most recently a senior associate at Sidewalk Labs focusing on economic
development and strategic acquisitions. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Fields was a Special
Assistant within the Treasury Department, where he was a key policy advisor to the O ice of
the Undersecretary for Domestic Finance. Fields provided critical expertise and support on
issues including the future structure of the housing finance system, and the fiscal solvency of
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He started within the Department at the Financial
Stability Oversight Council where he focused on systemic risk and non-bank systemically
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important financial institutions. Fields began his career as a sta er on the United States
Senate Banking Committee under Chairman Christopher Dodd, assisting the committee
during the dra ing, passage, and implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.
He served on the Biden-Harris transition team, as a member of the Agency Review Team for
the Treasury Department. Fields holds a Bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College and an
M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a proud native of East
Cleveland, Ohio.

NEIL MEHROTRA, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY F OR
MACROECONOMICS, OF F ICE OF ECONOMIC POLICY
Neil Mehrotra was most recently Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
in the Research and Statistics Group. He joined the Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies
Function at the NY Fed in July of 2019. His research focuses on declining interest rates and
secular stagnation, including implications for monetary and fiscal policy. He also studies the
importance of financial frictions for the behavior of firms over the business cycle. Mehrotra’s
research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal
of Monetary Economics, and AEJ: Macroeconomics. Prior to joining the New York Fed,
Mehrotra was an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Brown University from
2013 to 2019. His research has been supported by grants from the National Bureau of
Economic Research, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Washington Center for
Equitable Growth, and the Ewing Marion Kau man Foundation. From 2016 to 2017, Mehrotra
was a visiting junior scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He received his
Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Economics
from Columbia University in 2013.

JOSE E. MURILLO, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY F OR
INTERNATIONAL TAX AF FAIRS, OF F ICE OF TAX POLICY
Jose Murillo is returning to the Treasury Department a er spending eleven years as a partner
at Ernst & Young LLP. Most recently, Murillo was the Director of the International Tax and
Transaction Services practice in EY’s National Tax Department in Washington, D.C. In that
role, Murillo helped execute EY’s international tax strategy and advised many of EY’s largest
clients on a variety of US international tax matters. Previously, Murillo served at the Treasury
Department in the O ice of the International Tax Counsel in the Bush-Cheney and ObamaBiden Administrations. Prior to that, Murillo spent 10 years in EY’s international tax groups in
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Houston and Washington, D.C. Born in Mexico and raised in Texas, Murillo holds a BBA in
Accounting and MPA in Taxation from The University of Texas at Austin. Jose lives in
Washington, D.C., with his wife, Yoli Lopez.

HIRA QURESHI, DEPUTY W HITE HOUSE LIAISON
Hira Qureshi most recently served as the Operations and Special Projects Director at the
Biden-Harris General Election campaign and as the National Operations Coordinator during
the primary. Prior to joining the Biden-Harris campaign, she worked for a federal consulting
firm in Washington, D.C., supporting the Department of Defense and Government
Accountability O ice in data governance and project management. Qureshi has previously
served as a White House Intern during the Obama-Biden Administration, where she
supported the National Economic Council in trade policy. Originally from Georgia, she is a
graduate of Tu s University.

CATHERINE W OLF RAM, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY
F OR CLIMATE AND ENERGY ECONOMICS, OF F ICE OF
ECONOMIC POLICY
Catherine Wolfram most recently served as Associate Dean and Cora Jane Flood Professor of
Economics at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. She
also served as the Program Director of the Environmental and Energy Economics group at
the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation’s premier economic research
organization. She is a world-renowned expert on climate and energy economics and has
done research on a range of topics, from the electricity sectors in Kenya, Ghana and India, to
energy e iciency investments in the United States. Originally from Minnesota, Wolfram holds
a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an undergraduate
degree from Harvard University.
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