Douglas Rediker

Douglas Rediker is co-director of New America's Global Strategic Finance Initiative. This project, sponsored jointly by the American Strategy and Economic Growth programs, explores the challenges and opportunities presented in a rapidly evolving multi-polar financial world. He returned to the United States this year following 16 years in Europe, where he served as a senior investment banker and private equity investor for some of the world’s leading financial institutions, including Salomon Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. More recently, he was a London-based partner in a private equity firm. Mr. Rediker began his career as an attorney with Skadden, Arps in New York and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Rediker was named an “Emerging Markets Superstar” by Global Finance Magazine and has received both the ”EEMEA Equity” and “M&A Deals of the Year” by The International Financing Review. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the National Security Network and is a Senior Councilor at the Atlantic Council. Mr. Rediker appears often in both broadcast and print media, and has published articles in The New Republic and The Wall Street Journal.

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