David Lipton

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Assumed the position of First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on September 1, 2011.
Reappointed for a second five-year term beginning September 1, 2016 (reappointment dated March 28, 2016).

Special Assistant to the President; Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the National Economic Council and National Security Council at the White House.
Managing Director at Citi, Head of Global Country Risk Management: chaired Citi’s Country Risk Committee, worked for the Senior Risk Officer, and advised senior management on global risk issues.
Spent five years at Moore Capital Management, a global hedge fund.
Spent one year at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Served in the Clinton administration at the Treasury Department from 1993 to 1998:
- Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.
- Previously Assistant Secretary.
- Helped lead the Treasury’s response to the financial crisis in Asia and the effort to modernize the international financial architecture.
Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center of Scholars (prior to joining the Clinton administration).
From 1989 to 1992, worked with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs at Harvard University as economic advisers to the governments of Russia, Poland and Slovenia during their transitions to capitalism.
Began career with eight years on the staff of the International Monetary Fund, working on economic stabilization issues in emerging market and poor countries.