Daley, William M., 1948-

<p>Bill Daley was the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.</p>

<p>Daley ran for election for Mayor of Chicago in Illinois. Daley lost in the general election on February 26, 2019.</p>

<p>Daley served as U.S. commerce secretary during the Clinton administration from 1997 to 2000 and was the White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama in 2011. He is the son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley and brother of former Mayor Richard M. Daley.</p>
<p><b>Biography</b></p>
<p>Daley served as the U.S. commerce secretary during the Clinton administration and was the White House chief of staff under President Obama.</p>

<p>Daley has served as president and chief operating officer of Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, chairman of the midwest for JPMorgan Chase, and as head of JPMorgan Chase's Office of Corporate Responsibility.</p>

<p>Daley received a bachelor's degree from Chicago's Loyola University and a law degree from John Marshall Law School. </p>

Bill Daley is Vice Chairman of Public Affairs for Wells Fargo and leads the Public Affairs organization of approximately 780 team members globally. Public Affairs includes Corporate Communications, Government Relations & Public Policy, Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility, and Corporate Philanthropy & Community Relations.

Bill joined BNY Mellon as Vice Chairman in 2019, where he had responsibility for Government Affairs, Communications, Philanthropy and Corporate Social Responsibility. He was also a member of BNY Mellon’s Executive Committee. In 2010, Bill was appointed Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, a post he held until 2012. He joined JPMorgan Chase in 2004, where he was Vice Chairman and a member of the Executive Committee with a number of responsibilities, including leading the bank’s corporate responsibility program, until he left to join the Obama administration. In 2001, Bill was appointed President of SBC Communications, leaving there to join JPMorgan Chase. From 1997 to 2000, he was Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration. Bill stepped down to run Al Gore's campaign for President in 2000. Prior to joining the Clinton administration in 1997, he was a partner at Mayer, Brown & Platt and was appointed to the board of Fannie Mae by President Bill Clinton in 1993. A lawyer by profession, Bill joined Amalgamated Bank of Chicago as Vice Chairman in 1989 and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the bank from 1990 to 1993.

Bill has experience as a board member of various public companies and also has served on the boards of a number of academic, medical, charitable and civic organizations. He currently serves as a board member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, and other charitable and civic organizations.

Bill earned an undergraduate degree from Loyola University and a J.D. from the John Marshall Law School.

William Michael Daley (born August 9, 1948) is an American lawyer, politician and former banker. He served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, from January 2011 to January 2012. He also served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, from 1997 to 2000, under President Bill Clinton. He has also served on the executive committee of JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. Daley was a candidate for Governor of Illinois in the 2014 gubernatorial election, until dropping out of the race on September 16, 2013. He ran in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election but came in third in the first-round voting, and did not advance to the runoff. He served as the Vice Chairman of BNY Mellon from June through October 2019. Since November 13, 2019, Daley has served as the Vice Chairman of Public Affairs for Wells Fargo.