President Barack Obama announced May 27 his intent to nominate individuals to key administration post. Paul Tiao was nominated to be Inspector General, Department of Labor
Paul Tiao, a career prosecutor with the Department of Justice, has held a variety of important law enforcement and policy positions throughout his career. An Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland since 2002, Tiao has most recently served since March 2009 on detail to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as Special Counsel to the Director. As Special Counsel, Mr. Tiao has advised Director Mueller on a wide range of legal and policy matters in the national security and criminal arenas. Mr. Tiao was also previously detailed as Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2007 to 2008, where he drafted legislation and provided advice on a variety of criminal and national security issues. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Tiao was a Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, where he led housing and lending discrimination investigations and brought enforcement actions against civil rights violators. In between stints in the government, Mr. Tiao practiced law at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering as a litigator. He began his legal career as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He earned a J.D. from Columbia University, an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and an undergraduate engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.