About Sameera

Sameera served as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the Biden-Harris administration. In that role, she led the Biden-Harris administration’s work on U.S. competitiveness, industrial policy, supply chains, and regional economic development, and the administration’s response to numerous supply chain crises. She also played a leading role in the passage and implementation of the President’s Invest in America agenda. Prior to her time in the Administration, Sameera served in senior domestic and international economic policymaking roles in the Biden-Harris transition, Obama White House, the Treasury Department, and in the Federal Reserve System. She has worked as a Senior Researcher and Director of Engagement at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, as a researcher with the Urban Institute, taught development finance at Yale Law School, and worked at Shorebank, the nation’s first community development bank. Sameera is a graduate of Yale Law School and Harvard College and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.