D. Nathan Sheets is an American economist and government official who served as

Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs The Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs is a senior position within the United States Department of the Treasury responsible for advising the Secretary of the Treasury on international economic issues. During the Trump Admin ...

from 2014 to 2017. He has been Global Chief Economist at Citigroup since October 2021.

Early life and education

Sheets was born on December 23, 1964 in

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. After graduating from Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from

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, followed by a Ph.D in Economics from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

. Sheets was the recipient of a

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

Fellowship.

Career

From September 2014 to January 2017, Sheets served as the

at the Department of the Treasury, serving as the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on international economic issues. He was nominated by U.S. President

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on February 12, 2014, The

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confirmed him unanimously on September 18, 2014. Before working at the

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, he worked as the Global Head of International Economics at Citigroup. There, he produced economic commentary on current events, and the developing global economy. Prior to his years at Citigroup, he worked at the

Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a ...

for 18 years, in many positions, which included serving for nearly four years as the Director of the Division of International Finance from September 2007, until August 2011. He was a visiting fellow at the

Peterson Institute for International Economics The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), known until 2006 as the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981 and has been led by ...

from February to June 2017 and Chief Economist and Head of Global Macroeconomic Research at PGIM Fixed Income from July 2017 to October 2021. Sheets has also been serving as stake president of the Washington D.C. Stake for

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as of March 11, 2018.

References

External links

Under Secretary for International Affairs
Living people MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni United States Department of the Treasury officials Obama administration personnel 1964 births {{US-economist-stub