The Chinese-Speaking Chassid Who Worked for the Treasury: Mitchell Silk
How does a Chassidic Jew end up shaping global economic policy... and speaking fluent Chinese along the way?
In this episode of Behind the Bima, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg sits down with Mitchell Silk, former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, for a conversation about global finance, China, and the unlikely path that brought him from Torah life into the highest levels of government.
Fluent in Chinese and deeply immersed in Asia’s financial world, Silk spent decades working at the intersection of international law, finance, and geopolitics. Yet throughout his career, from years living in Hong…
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