Stuart A. Levey

Stuart Levey
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
In office July 21, 2004 – March 2011
President	George W. Bush Barack Obama
Succeeded by	David S. Cohen
United States Secretary of the Treasury Acting
In office January 20, 2009 – January 26, 2009
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Henry Paulson
Succeeded by	Timothy Geithner

Stuart A. Levey was the first Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence within the United States Department of the Treasury. He was sworn in on July 21, 2004 as a political appointee of President George W. Bush. President Obama asked Levey to remain in his position and Levey was one of only a small number of Senate-confirmed Bush appointees to be held over. Levey served until March 2011. Levey played a central role in the efforts to combat North Korea's and Iran's allegedly illicit conduct in the international financial system. Prior to his nomination, Levey served as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He had previously served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General and as the Chief of Staff of the Deputy Attorney General. He was succeeded by David S. Cohen. In January 2012, Levey joined HSBC as the bank's Chief Legal Officer.

He grew up in Jewish family near Akron, Ohio, where his father had practiced dentistry. He went to Camp Menominee, an overnight summer camp, as a child. In 1986 he graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude, and in 1989 he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He clerked for Judge Laurence Silberman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1989 through 1990.

Prior to joining the Justice Department in 2001, Mr. Levey spent 11 years in private practice at the Washington law firm Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin LLP (which merged into Baker Botts LLP). He had a litigation practice with a special emphasis on white collar criminal defense.

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