Douglas Rediker is Founding Partner of International Capital Strategies, LLC, a Washington, DC based boutique providing insights to institutional investors and companies on the political economy of global financial markets. Until March 1, 2023, he served on the Board of Directors of Cowen Inc. (Nasdaq: COWN). He is also a... Read more
Douglas Rediker is Founding Partner of International Capital Strategies, LLC, a Washington, DC based boutique providing insights to institutional investors and companies on the political economy of global financial markets. Until March 1, 2023, he served on the Board of Directors of Cowen Inc. (Nasdaq: COWN). He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. He represented the United States on the Executive Board of the IMF from 2010 to 2012, having been nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the US Senate. He served as Co-Head of the Biden presidential campaign international economic policy group on macro and markets. He served as Chairman/Vice Chairman and Member of the World Economic Forum Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Economic Growth Global Agenda/Future Councils. He moderated and participated in panels at WEF events in Davos on capital markets, the international monetary system, emerging markets and global governance issues.
In 2007, he returned to the US after living and working for over 16 years in Europe, where he served as a senior finance professional and private equity investor focused on public sector, telecom, media and technology, and emerging markets for some of the world’s leading financial institutions. Rediker’s 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 debt and equity capital markets transactions.
Douglas Rediker was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute For International Economics and has testified before the US Congress on subjects such as the Euro crisis, the IMF, foreign policy implications of the economic crisis, sovereign wealth funds and state capitalism. He is co-editor of the e-book What’s Next: Essays on the Geopolitics That Matter (Portfolio/Penguin, 2012). He has published opinion pieces in Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, New York Times, Foreign Policy, New Republic, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Globalist, European Affairs and National Interest and has appeared on a regular basis on the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and PBS. He was named an “Emerging Markets Superstar” by Global Finance Magazine.