Jeffrey Kupfer has served at the Treasury Department since January
2001. As Treasury Deputy Chief of Staff, Jeffrey Kupfer assists in
managing the day-to-day operations of the Department and coordinating
the development and implementation of the Department’s policy
priorities. He also serves as a senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary,
handling a variety of management and policy matters. Kupfer was also
previously the Department’s Executive Secretary.
From May until December 2003, Kupfer was detailed to the White
House, where he served as a Special Assistant in the
office of Chief of Staff Andrew Card. In that position, he focused
primarily on economic
issues.
Before coming to Treasury in January 2001, Kupfer worked for two different
U.S. Senate Committees. In 1997, he served as an investigative counsel
for the Government Affairs Committee special investigation into fundraising
improprieties during the 1996 presidential election. From 1998 until
2001, Kupfer served as a tax counsel on the Finance Committee. In 1993,
Kupfer was selected as a member of the Attorney General's Honor program
and worked from 1993 until 1997 as a prosecutor in the Justice Department's
criminal tax section. Before that, he clerked for Thomas P. Griesa,
Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York. Kupfer grew up in
Pittsburgh, PA. In 1989, he graduated summa cum laude from Yale University
and, in 1992, he graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.
