Doug Rediker serves on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, where he represents the United States. He previously served as the Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation.  This initiative focuses on the relationship between global finance, capital flows and foreign policy, with specific emphasis on the evolving role of the US in a multi-polarfinancial world.  In 2007, he returned tothe US after over 16 years in Europe, where he served as a senior investment banker and private equity investor for some of the world’s leading financial institutions, including Salomon Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers.  He began his career as an attorney at Skadden Arps in Washington, DC and New York.

Doughas testified before US Congressional Committees on subjects ranging from the foreign policy implications of the economic crisis to the threats and opportunities posed by Sovereign Wealth Funds and state capitalism.  He regularly publishes opinion pieces in Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Globalist,European Affairs and The National Interest.  Doug is also a regular contributor to TheWashingtonNote.com.

As Head of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Investment Banking through much of the 1990s, Doug was responsible establishing and managing operations inseveral countries and for originating and executing pioneering transactions in Russia, Central Asia, Turkey and Central/Eastern Europe.  These included the first company from the Former Soviet Union listed on a major US stock exchange, landmark strategic privatizations in Central and Eastern Europe and many others.  His experience includes working closely with governments, central banks and the private sector as a group head, relationship manager and team leader on privatizations, mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions.

Doug also has significant experience in global telecommunications and media, a sector he covered as a Senior Investment Banker and Private Equity investor for many years.  From 2000 through 2003, he was a partner in TD Capital Communications Partners, where he was jointly responsible for establishing and managing the European operations of this Private Equity Group with over $2 Billion of assets under management.  He served on the board of directors and auditcommittee of international companies with combined annual revenues approaching $4 Billion.

Dougwas named an “Emerging Markets Superstar” by GlobalFinance Magazine and has received both the ”EEMEA Equity” and “M&A Deals of the Year” by The International Financing Review.  He appears often in both television and print media, including the BBC, CNN, CNBC, The Financial News, The Wall Street Journal, Congressional Quarterly, The National Journal, The New York Times, Euromoney, Le Monde and The International Herald Tribune. 

He hasmoderated and participated in panels at World Economic Forum events on capital markets and emerging market investments. He was an advisor to the Congressional Task Force on Sovereign Wealth Funds and a member of the Steering Committee of the Clinton Global InitiativeTask Force on Political Risk Insurance for Emerging Markets.  He is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and the National Security Network and serves on the advisory board of the Lisbon Council in Brussels.  Doug is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Aidan Montessori School in Washington, DC.    

Dougwas a member of the National Finance Committee for President-elect Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  He also served as an advisor to the campaign on foreign policy and economic issues.