Nancy Lee

Visiting Fellow
NLee@cgdev.org

Education

Nancy Lee holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from Tufts University and a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College.

Background

Nancy Lee joined 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. A focus of her recent work at Treasury was expanding access to finance to small businesses and catalyzing more private finance for infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the Center, she is working on addressing constraints to growth and income convergence in the Western Hemisphere through regional integration. Her recent CGD Note and Video suggest a fresh approach to regional integration in the form of a proposed regional investment agreement

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.