C. Fred Bergsten

C. Fred Bergsten has been Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since its creation in 1981. He has also been chairman of the "Shadow G-8," which advises the G-8 countries on their annual summit meetings, and co-chairman (with German Deputy Finance Minister Caio Koch-Weser) of the Trans-Atlantic Strategy Group created by the Bertelsmann Foundation.

He was chairman of the Competitiveness Policy Council, which was created by Congress, throughout its existence from 1991 to 1995 and chairman of the APEC Eminent Persons Group throughout its existence from 1993 to 1995. He was assistant secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977-81); assistant for international economic affairs to the National Security Council (1969-71); and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1972-76), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1981), and the Council on Foreign Relations (1967-68).

He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on a wide range of international economic issues, including The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade (2005), Dollar Adjustment: How Far? Against What? (2004), Dollar Overvaluation and the World Economy (2003), No More Bashing: Building a New Japan-United States Economic Relationship (2001), and The Dilemmas of the Dollar (2d ed, 1996).

He received his B.A. from Central Methodist University in 1961 and his M.A. (1962), M.A.L.D. (1963) and Ph.D. (1969) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.