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Josh Lipsky is the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. He previously served as an advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Speechwriter to Christine Lagarde.

Prior to joining the IMF, Josh was an appointee at the State Department, serving as Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.

Before joining the State Department, Josh worked in the White House and was tasked with helping plan President Obama’s participation at the G-20, G-7, and other global summits. He has also worked on Capitol Hill and at the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

He is a term-member at the Council on Foreign Relations and an Economic Diplomacy Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

In these roles he has advised policymakers on a range of emerging challenges to the global economy, including trade wars, the reform of the Bretton Woods system, and the rise of digital currencies.

His analysis, writing, and commentary have been featured in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, and CNBC, among others.

Josh is a licensed attorney, accredited to practice in Maryland and Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School, a Master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. from Columbia University. Josh, his wife Leah, and their daughters Clara and Hannah, live in Maryland.