Lily Batchelder to Leave Treasury in February, Return to NYU

Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Lily Batchelder will leave the department at the end of February, a Treasury official told Bloomberg Tax.

Batchelder, who was confirmed to her position by the Senate in September 2021, will return to New York University where she’s worked as the Robert C. Kopple Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.

In her role at Treasury, Batchelder was a key adviser to department Secretary Janet Yellen and headed the Office of Tax Policy. She also has overseen US negotiations in the OECD-led international tax deal, which aims ...