John Koskinen
| John Koskinen | |
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| 48th Commissioner of Internal Revenue | |
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Assumed office December 23, 2013 |
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| President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Daniel Werfel (Acting) |
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John Andrew Koskinen June 30, 1939 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Salz |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
Duke University (BA) Yale Law School (LLB) |
John Andrew Koskinen (born June 30, 1939) is an American businessman and public official of Finnish descent. He served as the Non-Executive Chairman of Freddie Mac from September 2008 to December 2011, retiring from the board in February 2012. On December 20, 2013, Koskinen was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to head the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. On December 23, 2013, Koskinen was sworn in as the 48th IRS Commissioner after being nominated by President Obama.
John Koskinen was born on June 30, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Koskinen graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Physics from Duke University in 1961, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated with an LLB, cum laude from Yale Law School in 1964, and did post graduate work in Cambridge University, Cambridge, England from 1964 to 1965.
Koskinen served as President of the U.S. Soccer Foundation from 2004 to 2008. He previously served as the Deputy Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget, and then later President Clinton's Chair of the President's Council on Y2K, 2000 Conversion, the Year 2000 problem. He served on the board of AES from 2004 to 2013 and American Capital, Ltd from 2007 to 2013. On March 11, 2009, he was announced as the interim CEO at Freddie Mac. On April 23, 2009, he became the Principal Financial Officer after the death of Freddie Mac's acting CFO David Kellermann. In August, 2009, with the hiring of a new CEO, he returned to his position as non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Freddie Mac.
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