D. Nathan Sheets

D. Nathan Sheets is an American economist and government official who served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2014 to 2017.[1] He was a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from February to June 2017. [2]

D. Nathan Sheets
Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
In office
September 18, 2014  January 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byLael Brainard
Succeeded byDavid Malpass
Personal details
Born (1964-12-23) December 23, 1964
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Alma materBrigham Young University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)

Early life and education

Sheets was born on December 23, 1964 in Salt Lake City, Utah. After graduating from Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Brigham Young University, followed by a Ph.D in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sheets was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Fellowship.[3][4]

Career

From September 2014 to January 2017, Sheets served as the Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.[5] He was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama on February 12, 2014, [6] The United States Senate confirmed him unanimously on September 18, 2014.[7]

Before working at the United States Department of the Treasury, he worked as the Global Head of International Economics at Citigroup.[8] There, he produced economic commentary on current events, and the developing global economy.[9] Prior to his years at Citigroup, he worked at the Federal Reserve 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.[10] Sheets has also been serving as stake president of the Washington D.C. Stake for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as of March 11, 2018.[11]

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