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She has held senior leadership positions at the intersection of national economic security, international finance and policy, both in government and finance, over the past 30 years. She is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

From August 2019, she co-led the international economic policy team for the Biden Presidential campaign, crafting and contributing to a broad range of issues including national economic security and competitiveness, supply chain resilience, currency, macro and markets, trade, sanctions and other economic tools, and China policy. She served on the Biden Treasury Agency Review Transition team as lead on International Affairs through January 2021.

Heidi served in the Obama Administration as the State Department’s first Chief Economist, an Assistant Secretary level position. She designed the mission, recruited key staff and provided strategic advice and analysis to two Secretaries of State on a wide range of foreign policy issues, both on crisis-related and longer-term challenges with economic drivers, such as global infrastructure investment and challenges posed by China’s state capitalism investment model. Before this, she served as the Chief of International Finance and Economics for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Over her nearly two-decade investment banking career based in Europe as a Managing Director at several bulge bracket investment banks, she managed businesses in European Debt Capital Markets, Emerging Markets, and Sovereign, Supranational and Public Sector Banking. She began her career in energy merchant banking after working for one of the first U.S.-Russian Joint Ventures, based on Sakhalin Island.

Heidi was named one of the “Top 25 Women in Business” by The Wall Street Journal Europe. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College and MSc from the London School of Economics.