David Lipton is the First Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund. Before coming to the IMF, he was Special Assistant to the President, and served as Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the National Economic Council and National Security Council at the White House. Previously, 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. 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 – Lipton 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, Lipton was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center of Scholars.
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From the fall of communism to the rise of China and Africa, David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, reflects on over 40 years of globalization in this transcript of a spe...
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