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NAME: Neel Kashkari
AGE:35
NEW TITLE, ROLE: Interim assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial stability. He will oversee the government's $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets.
EDUCATION: Received both a bachelor's and master's in engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also received an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
EXPERIENCE: Joined the Treasury Department in July 2006 as a senior adviser to Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. Previously was a vice president at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, the firm Paulson ran prior to becoming secretary.
ENGINEERING BACKGROUND: Before his finance career, Kashkari worked on NASA technology such as the James Webb Space Telescope for TRW Inc., which is now part of defense contractor Northrop Grumman.
-- Associated Press
