Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets explained

The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Trade and Development is a senior official in the United States Department of the Treasury who heads a portfolio of the department's offices on international financial services issues, trade and investment policy, banking and securities, and U.S. relations with multilateral development banks.^{[2] [3]}

The position was created on July 26, 2007, as part of the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007. The position has changed names twice: it was originally called Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, then later changed to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development, before settling on its current name.

The Assistant Secretary is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The position is currently held by Alexia Latortue.

List of Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury for International Trade and Development

Name	Assumed office	Left office	President appointed by	Secretary served under
Neel Kashkari[4]	July 2008	May 1, 2009	George W. Bush	Henry Paulson
Marisa Lago[5]	February 2010[6]	January 20, 2017[7]	Barack Obama	Timothy Geithner
				Jack Lew
Heath Tarbert[8]	October 10, 2017	July 15, 2019	Donald Trump	Steven Mnuchin
Mitchell Silk[9]	July 15, 2019	January 20, 2021
Alexia Latortue	January 13, 2022	present	Joe Biden	Janet Yellen

See also

• Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

Notes and References

1. Web site: David Samuel Cohen. Search Federal Pay. Feds Data Center. 29 April 2016.
2. Web site: International Affairs U.S. Department of the Treasury. home.treasury.gov. 2020-05-19.
3. Web site: First-ever hassidic Jew appointed as US assistant secretary. The Jerusalem Post JPost.com. 2020-05-19.
4. Web site: PN1044 — Neel T. Kashkari — Department of the Treasury . U.S. Congress . 2021-01-25.
5. Web site: PN1010 — Marisa Lago — Department of the Treasury . U.S. Congress . 2021-01-25.
6. Book: Hearing before the Committee on Finance . 22 . U.S. Senate . 2021-01-26.
7. Web site: Lago, Marisa . OpenSecrets.
8. Web site: PN173 — Heath P. Tarbert — Department of the Treasury . U.S. Congress . 2021-01-26.
9. Web site: Mitchell A. Silk U.S. Department of the Treasury. home.treasury.gov. 2020-05-19.