Douglas REDIKER

Douglas A. Rediker is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where his work focuses on geoeconomics at the intersection of foreign policy, the global economy, and development. He is also Managing Partner of International Capital Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based advisory firm that advises institutional investors, corporations, and international organizations on the interplay between politics, international relations, the global economy, and financial markets.

From 2010 to 2012, he represented the United States on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, at the height of the euro area crisis. In 2020, he led the international economic policy working group for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

Douglas Rediker has also served as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s councils on geopolitics and geoeconomics, and has participated in numerous panels in Davos and other international forums.

He lived and worked in Europe for more than sixteen years, notably as a senior investment banker and private equity investor for major international financial institutions. He advised governments, central banks, and corporations on privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets transactions.

He has testified before the U.S. Congress on the IMF, sovereign wealth funds, state capitalism, and the geopolitical consequences of financial crises. He has written for leading publications including Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The Wall Street Journal, and regularly appears on the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and PBS.

Douglas Rediker began his career as an attorney at Skadden, Arps in Washington and New York. He has also been a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the New America Foundation, where he co-founded the Global Strategic Finance Initiative. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.