Nancy Lee

Visiting Fellow
NLee@cgdev.org

Background

Nancy Lee joins the Center for Global Development from the U.S. Treasury Department where she served most recently as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, Eurasia and the Western Hemisphere, overseeing Treasury’s engagement with 86 countries. Over the past year, a principal focus of her work at Treasury was expanding access to finance and catalyzing more private finance for infrastructure. At the Center, she will work principally on regional integration models and their application to the Western Hemisphere.

From 1997 to 1999, she was Treasury’s Director of the Office of Central and Eastern Europe. Previously, she was Director of the Office of Mideast and Central Asia and Deputy Director of the Office of Asian and Near East Nations, where she helped launch the APEC Finance Ministers process.

Also at Treasury, she served in the Office of International Monetary Policy, covering the G-7 finance ministers process and IMF issues, and in the Office of International Trade Policy, focusing on U.S. trade policy issues with developing countries. She was a Treasury negotiator in the Uruguay Round trade negotiations and in the early part of the NAFTA negotiations.

In 2002, Dr. Lee became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2001, Dr. Lee was a recipient of the Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from Tufts University and a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College.