FACTBOX: Obama close to naming picks for top Treasury posts

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama may soon put forward nominees for a number of top Treasury Department positions.

Aside from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, only one of the other top four posts are filled.

Following are biographies of people who sources have said are under consideration for top jobs, as well as a biography for Stuart Levey, who has stayed on as undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

Annette Nazareth

-- for Deputy Treasury Secretary

Nazareth is a partner at the law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell and is considered an expert in regulatory matters. She worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a decade, rising to the post of commissioner from 2005-2008. At the SEC, Nazareth was the commission's representative to the Financial Stability Forum, a global regulatory group.

After leading the SEC and before joining Davis Polk in September, she headed up a report on the structure of financial supervision for the Group of Thirty, an international organization of public and private experts on financial regulatory systems. Prior to her time at the SEC, she worked at a number of investment banks, including Lehman Brothers.

In 2004, she helped create the SEC's now-defunct Consolidated Supervisory Entity program, the voluntary arrangement that allowed the commission to supervise liquidity and capital levels at investment banks such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. The SEC was forced to shut down the program in 2008 after Lehman collapsed, Merrill Lynch was sold, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were transformed into bank holding companies supervised by the Federal Reserve.

Caroline Atkinson

-- for Undersecretary for International Affairs

Atkinson is director for external relations at the International Monetary Fund, where she has worked since 2005. She has also served as the IMF's deputy director for the Western Hemisphere.

During the Clinton administration, Atkinson worked at the Treasury under Geithner, who served as undersecretary for international affairs, and then Secretary Lawrence Summers, who now heads the White House National Economic Council. She lists financial crises management, foreign exchange markets, Japan and Argentina as areas of expertise on her biography.

At the Treasury, she worked on international monetary and financial policy, including foreign exchange markets, G7 policy, international banking and capital markets and crisis management in emerging markets. She was a key player in the department's work to reform the international financial architecture, according to her official biography.

Prior to joining the IMF, Atkinson worked at Stonebridge International, a Washington-based investment advisory firm co-founded by former National Security Adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger.

Lee Sachs

-- for Undersecretary for Domestic Finance

Sachs, most recently a partner and fund manager at Mariner Investment Group Inc, is already working at the Treasury as an adviser to Geithner and is involved in developing the Treasury's bank rescue plan.

Sachs served as the Treasury's assistant secretary for financial markets during the Clinton administration, working closely on many issues with Geithner, who served as the Treasury's point-person on international affairs.

Stuart Levey

-- Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

Levey is one of two Treasury holdovers from the Bush administration. The other is Neel Kashkari, a Paulson protege in charge of running the government's $700 billion financial bailout program. The anti-terrorism post was created in 2004, and Levey is the first and only official to hold the title.

Levey is tasked with coordinating the department's efforts to "sever the lines of financial support to international terrorists," according to his official biography. Prior to joining Treasury, he was a top official at the Justice Department. Earlier, he was a lawyer in private practice at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin LLP.

(Compiled by Corbett B. Daly; Editing by Neil Stempleman)