Douglas Rediker

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Douglas Rediker is co-director, with his wife, Heidi Crebo-Rediker, of The New America Foundation's Global Strategic Finance Initiative.^[1] He has written extensively and testified before Congress on the subject of Sovereign Wealth Funds and other issues surrounding the relationship between global capital flows and their impact on foreign policy.^[2]

He returned to the United States in 2007 following 16 years in Europe, where he served as a senior investment banker and private equity investor for Salomon Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. He was instrumental in leading a number of the earliest privatizations in Central and Eastern Europe.^[3] In particular, Mr. Rediker led many transactions involving the Hungarian Telecommunications Company, Magyar Telekom (previously knows as Matav),^[4]including its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. He was also a London-based partner in TD Capital, a private equity firm focused on media and telecommunications investments. Mr. Rediker began his career as an attorney with Skadden, Arps in New York and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Rediker has received numerous industry awards, including having been named an “Emerging Markets Superstar” by Global Finance Magazine and has received both the ”EEMEA Equity” and “M&A Deals of the Year” by The International Financing Review. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Mr. Rediker appears often in both broadcast and print media, and has been published in The New Republic, The National Interest and The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Rediker is a member of the National Finance Committee for the Presidential Campaign of Barack Obama.