Céline Senseney is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development with extensive experience in international economic policy and sustainable development finance. She served fifteen years at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, during which she represented the department in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf, and at the Asian Development Bank Board. While at Treasury, she developed initiatives and policies linked to the Just Energy Transition Partnerships, macro-economic and financial sector stability including in fragile and conflict-affected states, multilateral development bank effectiveness, and anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML-CFT)/sanctions implementation.
From 2020 to 2022, she served as a resident economic advisor to the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance, leading a Government of France technical assistance program during a critical period of economic reform. Earlier in her career, she worked as a policy analyst at the United States Senate Democratic Policy Committee, focusing on banking, finance, and small business issues. She also worked on governance and anti-corruption projects in Washington, D.C., and Tbilisi, Georgia.
Her current work centers on strengthening international financing mechanisms to address critical global challenges, including climate change and fragility, and to support structural economic transformations. She holds an MA from the George Washington University and a BA from the University of Virginia.
