Sameera Fazili is the daughter of Mohammad Yusuf Fazili and Rafiqa Fazili, both doctors, who migrated to the US from Kashmir.
Sameera Fazili is an American attorney and community development finance expert who is a Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the Biden Administration. Previously, she was working as the Director of Engagement for Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Sameera Fazili is the daughter of Mohammad Yusuf Fazili and Rafiqa Fazili, both doctors, who migrated to the US from Kashmir. Fazili graduated from the Nichols School in 1996 after which she earned a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Harvard College, graduating with magna cum laude. She obtained her Juris Doctor (JD) from Yale Law School.
Fazili started as a clinical lecturer at Yale Law School’s community and economic development unit. She expanded the clinic’s work to international microfinance and helped start a community development financial institution (CDFI) bank. She also worked at a CDFI bank called ShoreBank, said to be the first such bank in the US.
Later Fazili worked in the US Treasury Department on issues related to CDFIs, housing finance and small business finance. She was also a senior adviser and chief of staff to Treasury’s Under Secretary for International Affairs.
She joined the Obama Administration as a Senior Policy Adviser in the National Economic Council, where she covered retirement, consumer finance and community and economic development issues. Afterwards, she worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta as the Director of Engagement in its community and economic development department.
As a Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the Biden Administration, Fazili will be focused on manufacturing, innovation, and domestic competition.
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