Heidi Crebo-Rediker has held senior leadership positions at the nexus of international markets, macroeconomics, and national security, in government and business, for more than 25 years. Known for providing actionable strategic advice at the Cabinet Secretary, C-Suite and board level, she draws on her extensive U.S. and overseas experience to... Read more
Heidi Crebo-Rediker has held senior leadership positions at the nexus of international markets, macroeconomics, and national security, in government and business, for more than 25 years. Known for providing actionable strategic advice at the Cabinet Secretary, C-Suite and board level, she draws on her extensive U.S. and overseas experience to provide insight on navigating geopolitical uncertainty helping companies, asset managers, and organizations anticipate, build resilience and position themselves to seize opportunities.
Heidi is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where she specializes in economic security, economic statecraft, and competitiveness, and leads the CFR high-level Roundtable Series on Geoeconomics. She is the former CEO, and remains a Partner, at International Capital Strategies – a boutique advisory firm that provides clients with market-relevant insights on the intersection of macroeconomics, geopolitics, policy and global financial markets.
She served on the Biden Treasury Department Transition team as Agency Lead on International Affairs through January 2021. From August 2019 through the 2020 election, she built and led Biden’s international economic policy team for his Presidential campaign, crafting and contributing to incoming Administration policy on national economic security, China, supply chain resilience, trade, macro and markets, energy and energy security, the IMF and Multilateral Development Banks, sanctions and export controls, as well as to the domestic competitiveness and investment agenda.
Previously, Heidi served in the Obama Administration as the State Department’s first Chief Economist. She provided strategic advice to two Secretaries of State on the integration of economics and finance with geopolitics to help craft and launch “Economic Statecraft” in the Administration. Her remit encompassed a wide range of foreign policy issues, both crisis-related and longer-term challenges and opportunities with economic drivers. Before this, she served as the Chief of International Finance and Economics for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Over her previous, nearly two-decade investment banking career based in Europe as a Managing Director at several bulge bracket investment banks, she managed businesses including sovereign and public sector banking, and 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 MSc from the London School of Economics.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission. She was named one of the “Top 25 Women in Business” by The Wall Street Journal Europe.