Heidi Crebo-Rediker

Heidi is a Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), specializing in economic security, economic competitiveness, and international finance. She directs CFR's Roundtable Series on Global Political Economy. 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 Obama Administration. 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 ranging from sovereign and public sector banking, European debt capital markets, to emerging markets debt capital markets and corporate finance. Areas of industry focus were energy and mining, financial services and telecommunications. She began her career in energy merchant banking and investing in Russia/CIS. Heidi holds a BA from Dartmouth College and MSc from the London School of Economics. Her views are carried in many forums, including Bloomberg TV and radio, CNN, CNBC, FT, WSJ, BBC, NPR, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and elsewhere. She was named one of the “Top 25 Women in Business” by The Wall Street Journal Europe. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.