Douglas A. Rediker is Managing Partner at International Capital Strategies, a Washington, DC-based political advisory firm providing insights to institutional investors and companies on the interaction of foreign policy, international economics and the political economy of global financial markets. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution focused on Geoeconomics in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development programs, as well as a member of Brookings’ Center on the US and Europe.
From 2010-2012, at the height of the eurocrisis, Rediker represented the United States on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), having been nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the US Senate. More recently, he served as Head of the Biden presidential campaign international economic policy group on macro and markets.
He served as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum Geopolitics and Geoeconomics Global Agenda Councils, and as a member of the WEF’s Economic Growth Global Futures Council. He moderated and participated in panels at WEF events in Davos on emerging markets, global governance, capital markets, and the international monetary system.
In 2007, he returned to the United States after living and working for over 16 years in Europe, where he served as a senior investment banker and private equity investor for some of the world's leading financial institutions. As Head of Former Soviet Union, Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa Investment Banking, Rediker's experience includes working closely with governments, central banks, and the private sector on privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity capital markets transactions.
Rediker has testified before the U.S. Congress on the role of the IMF, foreign policy implications of the Global Financial Crisis, the eurocrisis, and the threats and opportunities posed by sovereign wealth funds and state capitalism. He is coeditor of What's Next: Essays on the Geopolitics That Matter (Portfolio/Penguin, 2012). He has published opinion pieces in Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and The National Interest and has appeared on a regular basis on the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, and PBS. He has been a visiting lecturer, moderator and speaker at The Milken Institute, The Trilateral Commission, GMF Brussels Forum, Council on Foreign Relations, Atlantik-Brücke, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, National Defence University, Georgetown University, and New York University. He was named an "Emerging Markets Superstar" by Global Finance Magazine. He began his career as an attorney at Skadden Arps in Washington, DC and New York. He also served as a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and as a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and director of its Global Strategic Finance Initiative, which he co-founded. He is a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations.