Biden Makes Selections for Sanctions, CFIUS Officials, Report Says
President Joe Biden has made his choices for several senior positions at Treasury, including the agency’s top sanctions and foreign investment officials, Bloomberg reported April 30. Biden will nominate attorney Brian Nelson to be undersecretary of the Terrorism and Financial Intelligence office, which oversees the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and attorney Josh Berman to be assistant secretary overseeing Treasury’s work on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., according to the report.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
If your job depends on informed compliance, you need International Trade Today. Delivered every business day and available any time online, only International Trade Today helps you stay current on the increasingly complex international trade regulatory environment.
Bloomberg said Nelson previously worked for Vice President Kamala Harris when she was California’s attorney general. Berman, a lawyer with Clifford Chance, previously worked as a lawyer with the Commerce Department, where he advised on CFIUS and export control matters, according to his bio. Berman didn’t respond to a request for comment, and Nelson couldn't be reached. Treasury and the White House didn’t comment.
Biden will also make several other Treasury appointments, the report said, including economist Heidi Crebo-Rediker to be Treasury’s undersecretary of international affairs and Elizabeth Rosenberg for assistant secretary of terrorist financing. Bloomberg said Crebo-Rediker formerly worked as a chief economist at the State Department and Rosenberg has been advising Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo.