Gavin A. Beske — profile dossier

Pandemic-program role: Political Deputy Assistant Secretary at Treasury over the Community & Economic Development portfolio: the CDFI / community-and-mission-lending policy seat.
Institution · office: Treasury · Office of Domestic Finance, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community & Economic Development (CDFI / community-development policy) · Type: political (non-career SES / Schedule C)
Tenure (relief-relevant): in the role in 2020 (Treasury's Oct. 15, 2020 PRB notice; the 2020 Plum Book); a Trump-administration political appointee

The job (role mechanics)

Level / appointment: Deputy Assistant Secretary, a political appointment, typically non-career SES (some Treasury DAS slots are Schedule C). Not an Executive Schedule / PAS position; not Senate-confirmed.
Reports to: the Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions (within Domestic Finance), and ultimately the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance and the Secretary. The CDFI Fund itself was run separately by career Director Jodie Harris.
Core responsibility: Treasury policy on community and economic development: community development financial institutions (CDFIs), minority depository institutions, the Bank Enterprise Award and related programs, and the broader mission-/community-lending agenda.
Pay: A non-career SES position per the 2020 Plum Book; his pay is not in a first-party document.
Expectations / mandate: advise Treasury leadership on community-development finance policy; coordinate with the CDFI Fund, banking regulators, SBA, and the lending industry; represent Treasury to CDFIs and community lenders.
Tenure norm: Serves at the pleasure of the administration. Political appointees of this type generally leave at a change of administration.

Who they are

Gavin A. Beske held the Treasury post of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community and Economic Development, a non-career Senior Executive Service position, during 2020. The record we have of his Treasury period is the Treasury PRB notice and the 2020 Plum Book; his earlier and later career are not documented in first-party sources we have.

Education

Not stated in a first-party source we have.

Career before

Not documented in first-party sources we have.

Role in the pandemic relief programs

Treasury's October 15, 2020 Senior Executive Service Performance Review Board notice lists "Gavin Beske, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community and Economic Development"; the 2020 Plum Book lists the position as non-career SES and lists Gavin Andrew Beske in it. The
same title was later held in the Biden administration by Noel Andrés Poyo.
No document we have describes Beske's individual actions in the relief programs.

Documents written or signed

No public document was individually attributed to Gavin Beske as author or signatory in the relief context. The PPP rules and CDFI funding mechanics were issued by SBA and Treasury at the agency/secretary level (interim final rules, set-aside announcements).

Career after / where they are now

Not documented in first-party sources we have.

Sources held in this archive

Original source documents and archived captures

Sources (first-party)

U.S. Treasury, Federal Register — Senior Executive Service; Performance Review Boards (Treasury), 85 Fed. Reg. 65466 (Oct. 15, 2020), listing Gavin Beske among Treasury officials: U.S. Treasury, Federal Register — Senior Executive Service; Performance Review Boards Treasury, 85 Fed. Reg. 65466 Oc... (original: govinfo.gov · stored capture)
U.S. Treasury, "Testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community and Economic Development Noel Andrés Poyo …" (successor in the same seat, confirming the portfolio): U.S. Treasury, "Testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community and Economic Development Noel Andrés Poyo …" su... (original: home.treasury.gov · stored capture)
2020 Plum Book (authoritative political-vs-career Treasury roster — Treasury section): Gpo Plumbook 2020 8 23 Pdf 5cf23443cf109f5a (original: govinfo.gov · stored capture)