Brad Setser

Brad W. Setser is the Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Setser has served as a senior adviser to the U.S. trade representative from 2021 to 2022 and as the deputy assistant secretary for international economic analysis in the U.S. Treasury from 2011 to 2015, where he worked on Europe’s financial crisis, currency policy, financial sanctions, commodity shocks and Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. He previously has been director for international economics on the staff of the National Economic Council and the National Security Council.