Subject: MIDDLE EAST: 3/17 Breakfast with David Lipton, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs, NEC and NSC
From: "Meghan Hagberg" <[email-masked]>
To: "Meghan Hagberg" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 09:44:58 -0500

The Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) is pleased to announce a breakfast roundtable discussion on

developments in the Middle East with

David Lipton

Special Assistant to the President

and

Senior Director for International Economic Affairs

National Economic Council and National Security Council

Thursday, March 17, 2011

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Washington, D.C.

Hosting opportunities are available.  For more information on hosting or participation,

please contact Meghan Hagberg at [email-masked]

Biographical Information

David Lipton currently serves as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the National Economic Council and National Security Council at the White House.

Prior to this position, Mr. Lipton was a Managing Director at Citi, where he was Head of Global Country Risk Management. In that capacity, he chaired Citi's Country Risk Committee, worked for the Senior Risk Officer, and advised senior management on global risk issues.  Prior to joining Citi in May 2005, he spent five years at Moore Capital Management, a global hedge fund and, before that, a year at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  David Lipton served in the Clinton administration at the Treasury Department from 1993 to 1998. As Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs - and before that as Assistant Secretary - he helped lead the Treasury's response to the financial crisis in Asia and the effort to modernize the international financial architecture. Before joining the Clinton administration, David was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center of Scholars. From 1989 to 1992, he teamed up with Professor Jeffrey Sachs (then at Harvard University), working as economic advisers to the governments of Russia, Poland and Slovenia during their transitions to capitalism.  He began his career serving for eight years on the staff of the International Monetary Fund, where he worked on economic stabilization issues in emerging markets.

Mr. Lipton received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1975.  He subsequently earned a Master of Arts and Doctorate from Harvard University.

Meghan Hagberg
Senior Program Officer
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