Heidi CREBO-REDIKER

Bio

Heidi Crebo-Rediker has held senior leadership roles at the intersection of international markets, macroeconomics, and national security in both government and business for over 25 years. Known for providing actionable strategic advice at the Cabinet, C-suite, and board levels, she draws on deep U.S. and international experience to help companies, asset managers, and institutions navigate geopolitical uncertainty, build resilience, and seize emerging opportunities. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she specializes in economic security, economic statecraft, and competitiveness. She also leads CFR’s high-level Roundtable Series on Geoeconomics. Heidi is the former CEO and remains a Partner at International Capital Strategies, a boutique advisory firm offering strategic insights at the nexus of macroeconomics, geopolitics, global markets, and policy. During the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, she built and led then-candidate Biden’s international economic policy team and served on the Biden Treasury Department Transition Team as Agency Lead for International Affairs. Her work shaped incoming administration policies on national economic security, China, trade, supply chains, sanctions, multilateral finance, and global competitiveness. She previously served in the Obama Administration as the State Department’s first Chief Economist, advising two Secretaries of State and helping to craft the Administration’s “Economic Statecraft” agenda. Earlier, she served as Chief of International Finance and Economics for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Before government service, Heidi spent nearly two decades in Europe as a Managing Director at several global investment banks. She led businesses across sovereign and public sector finance, and both high grade and emerging markets debt capital markets. Areas of industry focus included energy, mining, and financial services. She began her career in energy merchant banking in Europe and emerging markets, and investing in Russia/CIS. Her views on navigating geopolitical risk and opportunity, financial and economic matters have been carried in many forums, including CNN, Bloomberg TV and Radio, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Fortune, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and elsewhere. Heidi holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MSc from the London School of Economics. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission and was named one of the “Top 25 Women in Business” by The Wall Street Journal Europe.