East Cleveland native tapped as senior advisor
William Fields returned to the US Treasury last week, this time as Senior Advisor within the Office of the Secretary at the United States Department of the Treasury.
In an earlier stint, Fields was a Special Assistant within the United States Department of the Treasury, where he was a key policy advisor to the Office of the Undersecretary for Domestic Finance. He provided critical expertise, recommendations, and support on issues including the future structure of the housing finance system, and the fiscal solvency of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. While in this role, he also managed the Domestic Finance workflow of approximately 400 staff across 26 sub-offices.
Fields started within the Treasury Department at the Financial Stability Oversight Council where he focused on systemic risk and co-authored the designation of Metlife as a non-bank systemically important financial institution.
Most recently, Fields was a senior associate at Sidewalk Labs focusing on economic development and strategic acquisitions. While at Sidewalk, he led the conception and articulation of the organization's economic development thesis for its Toronto Tomorrow proposal, a first-of-its-kind master development plan to create an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable "smart city" neighborhood along Toronto's eastern waterfront.
Fields began his career as a staffer on the United States Senate Banking Committee under Chairman Christopher Dodd, assisting the committee during the drafting, passage, and implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.
Fields holds a B.A. from Morehouse College and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The Hawken graduate is the son of attorney Darrell Fields and Helen Forbes-Fields, vice president of United Way Cleveland.
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