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Heidi Crebo-Rediker

Senior Fellow

Bio

Heidi Crebo-Rediker served as the State Department's first chief economist. Appointed to this assistant secretary–level position by Secretary Clinton as a centerpiece of her "Economic Statecraft" initiative, she provided advice and analysis to the secretary on foreign policy issues having a significant economic or financial component.

Prior to this, Ms. Crebo-Rediker was the Chief of International Finance and Economics for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, following nearly two decades in Europe as a senior investment banker. In the Senate, she advised then Chairman John Kerry on a range of international and domestic economic and financial issues.

Over her investment banking career, she managed businesses ranging from European debt capital markets, emerging markets debt capital markets, to sovereign, supranational and public sector banking. In this capacity, she managed public and private financings for governments, corporations and banks, and related advisory work.

Upon returning to Washington D.C., she was the founding co-director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. During her time in the Senate, she was the architect of the bi-partisan National Infrastructure Bank legislation (The BUILD Act) introduced in March 2011 and included in the President Obama's Jobs Act.

Ms. Crebo-Rediker was named one of the "Top 25 Women in Business" by the Wall Street Journal Europe. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics.