Sylvia Matthews Burwell
| Sylvia Mathews Burwell | |
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| 22nd United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | |
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In office June 9, 2014 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy |
Bill Corr Mary Wakefield (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Kathleen Sebelius |
| Succeeded by | Tom Price |
| Director of the Office of Management and Budget | |
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In office April 24, 2013 – June 9, 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Deputy | Brian Deese |
| Preceded by | Jeffrey Zients (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Brian Deese (Acting) |
| White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy | |
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In office January 20, 1997 – October 21, 1998 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Harold Ickes |
| Succeeded by | Maria Echaveste |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Sylvia Mary Mathews June 23, 1965 Hinton, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Stephen Burwell |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
Harvard University (BA) Worcester College, Oxford (BA) |
Sylvia Mary Mathews Burwell (born June 23, 1965) is an American executive who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. President Barack Obama nominated Burwell on April 11, 2014, after the resignation of Kathleen Sebelius. Burwell's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 2014, by a vote of 78–17. She resigned at the end of the Obama administration. Previously, she had been the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2013 to 2014. In January 2017 she was announced as the next President of American University.
A West Virginia native, Burwell first worked for the United States government in Washington, D.C., during the Presidency of Bill Clinton. She helped form the National Economic Council in 1993. She later served as Chief of Staff to Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Deputy White House Chief of Staff to Erskine Bowles, and finally Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Previous positions included serving as president of the Walmart Foundation beginning in January 2012. Before that, she was the president of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where her program focused on combating world poverty through agricultural development, financial services for the poor, and global libraries. She was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the Foundation before its reorganization in 2006. She had joined the Foundation in 2001, after the end of the Clinton Presidency.
Mathews was born and raised in Hinton, West Virginia, a small town with a population of approximately 3,000. She was born to parents Cleo (née Maroudas) Mathews, a teacher and Hinton mayor from 2001 to 2009, and Dr. William Peter Mathews, an optometrist. Her father presided over the local Episcopal Church when there was no minister. Her maternal grandparents, Vasiliki (Mpakares) and Dennis N. Maroudas, were Greek immigrants, as were her paternal grandparents. Her grandparents owned a sweet shop in Hinton. Mathews has one older sister, four years her senior.
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