## David Lipton

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: January 10, 2019

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### Current position and appointments
- 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).

### Professional career and roles
- 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.

### Education
- Ph.d. and M.A. from Harvard University in 1982.
- B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1975.

### Personal
- Married to Susan Galbraith.
- Children: Anna, Sasha, and Gabriel.

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