Geoffrey W S Okamoto

Geoffrey W. S. Okamoto was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in International Affairs in May 2017. In this capacity, he leads a division charged with fostering global economic growth and overseeing participation by the United States in the World Bank, regional development banks, various G-20 and G-7 working groups, several trust funds, and sovereign debt matters, including the Paris Club. He also represents the United States on several international boards. Okamoto joins the Treasury from the U.S. Senate. Previously, he served as the Majority Staff Director for the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection. In 2012, Mr. Okamoto was appointed the Policy Director for the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade after serving as Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Representative John Campbell. Earlier, he worked for the White House National Economic Council and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In the private sector, Mr. Okamoto worked as a consultant for KPMG. Mr. Okamoto serves as Chairman of the Alumni Board for the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and was a joint Heritage Foundation-Hillsdale College James Madison Fellow. He was a 2014 Atlantik-Brücke Young Leader and member of the Council on Foreign Relations Congressional Foreign Policy Study Group. He earned a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University, with a concentration in Banking, Fiscal, and Monetary Policy. Mr. Okamoto also studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and conducted his graduate research on the effect bank reserve requirements have on aggregate lending volume and interest rates faced by borrowers, under the advisement of the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets Division. Mr. Okamoto earned a Bachelor’s of Science from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, with an emphasis in Computer Information Systems.