Brad Setser
Brad Setser is the Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where he regularly blogs at Follow the Money. His expertise includes global trade and capital flows, financial vulnerability analysis and sovereign debt restructuring. Setser served as a Senior Adviser to the U.S. Trade Representative, where he worked on the resolution of a number of trade disputes. Before that, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for international economic analysis in the U.S. Treasury, where he worked on Europe’s financial crisis, currency policy, financial sanctions, commodity shocks, and Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. He also served as Director for International Economics on the staff of the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. Setser worked at Roubini Global Economics Monitor as Director of Global Research where he co-authored the book "Bailouts or Bail-ins?" with Nouriel Roubini.
Brad Setser Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
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Deputy Assistant Secretary on International Economic Analysis
Academic History
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D.Phil., International Relations
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B.A., Government
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
Setser was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2003, and a fellow from 2007 to 2009.
In 2015, he rejoined CFR as the Steven A. Tananbaum Senior Fellow for international economics.
He is the author of the economics blog "Follow the Money" about global economic imbalances, which The Washington Post described in 2016 as a "must-read for those in the economics blogosphere".
EARLY CAREER
Setser was a Senior Adviser to the U.S. Trade Representative, where he worked on the resolution of a number of trade disputes.
He was Deputy Assistant Secretary for international economic analysis in the U.S. Treasury, where he worked on Europe’s financial crisis, currency policy, financial sanctions, commodity shocks, and Puerto Rico’s debt crisis.
He also has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Setser has written opinion pieces including in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal on U.S. international economic policy.
His work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Finance and Development, Global Governance and Georgetown Journal of International Law, among others.