Heidi Crebo-Rediker
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
Heidi Crebo-Rediker is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the CEO of International Capital Strategies. Prior to this, she served as the State Department’s first chief economist. providing advice and analysis to the secretary on foreign policy issues with a significant economic or financial component. Crebo-Rediker was also the Chief of International Finance and Economics for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, following nearly two decades in Europe as a senior investment banker. In the Senate, she advised then-chairman John Kerry on a range of international and domestic economic and financial issues. She has had an extensive career in investment banking, and on returning to Washington, D.C., she was the founding Co-Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation. During her time in the Senate, she was the architect of the bipartisan National Infrastructure Bank legislation (BUILD Act) introduced in March 2011 and included in President Barack Obama’s JOBS Act.
Crebo-Rediker spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2016.
