Heidi Crebo-Rediker is chief economist at the U.S. Department of State. She joined the State Department as its first chief economist in March 2012. Previously, she was chief of international finance and economics for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Separately, she advised the committee chairman, Senator John Kerry, on domestic and international economic issues. From 2007 to 2009, she was the founding co-director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. In 2007, she returned to the U.S. from Europe where she spent nearly two decades as a senior investment banker at several leading investment banks. Over her career, she managed businesses ranging from European debt capital markets, emerging markets debt capital markets, to sovereign, supranational and public sector banking. Crebo-Rediker was named one of the "Top 25 Women in Business" by The Wall Street Journal Europe. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics.

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