Jack Lew
Official portrait, 2023
United States Ambassador to Israel
In office November 5, 2023 – January 20, 2025
President	Joe Biden
Preceded by	Thomas R. Nides
Succeeded by	Mike Huckabee
76th United States Secretary of the Treasury
In office February 28, 2013 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Neal S. Wolin Mary J. Miller (acting) Sarah Bloom Raskin
Preceded by	Timothy Geithner
Succeeded by	Steven Mnuchin
25th White House Chief of Staff
In office January 27, 2012 – January 20, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Bill Daley
Succeeded by	Denis McDonough
32nd and 38th Director of the Office of Management and Budget
In office November 18, 2010 – January 27, 2012
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Jeffrey Liebman (acting) Heather Higginbottom
Preceded by	Jeff Zients (acting)
Succeeded by	Jeff Zients (acting)
In office May 21, 1998 – January 19, 2001 Acting: May 21, 1998 – July 31, 1998
President	Bill Clinton
Deputy	Joshua Gotbaum (acting) Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Preceded by	Franklin Raines
Succeeded by	Mitch Daniels
1st Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
In office January 28, 2009 – November 18, 2010
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Thomas R. Nides
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget
In office August 1995 – July 31, 1998
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	John Koskinen
Succeeded by	Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Personal details
Born	Jacob Joseph Lew (1955-08-29) August 29, 1955 (age 70) New York City, New York, U.S.
Party	Democratic
Spouse	Ruth Schwartz
Children	2
Education	Carleton College (attended) Harvard University (BA) Georgetown University (JD)
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Lew's voice Lew at the House Ways and Means Committee on the FY2015 federal budget. Recorded March 6, 2014

Jacob Joseph Lew (born August 29, 1955) is an American attorney and diplomat who served as the 28th United States ambassador to Israel from 2023 to 2025. He was the 76th United States secretary of the treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the 25th White House chief of staff from 2012 to 2013 and as director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Clinton administration and Obama administration.

During the Obama administration, Lew served as the first deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2009 to 2010, before returning to his former post of OMB Director from 2010 to 2012. He then served as chief of staff for the remainder of President Barack Obama’s first term from 2012 to 2013.

On January 10, 2013, Lew was nominated to replace retiring Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner,^[1] was confirmed by the Senate February 27, 2013, and then sworn in on the following day, serving until the conclusion of the Obama administration. Since 2017, he has been a managing partner at Lindsay Goldberg,^[2] a private equity firm headquartered in New York City. He is currently a visiting professor at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University.^[3]