Neel T. Kashkari is the Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury. In this role, he heads the Office of Financial Stability, the office set up to buy troubled financial assets from U.S. financial firms under the $700 billion U.S. Government Troubled Asset Relief Program. Kashkari joined the Treasury Department in July 2006 as Senior Advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and was later appointed as the Assistant Secretary for International Economics and Development, a title he still holds, though his international affairs responsibilities are delegated to Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Clay Lowery