Clay Lowery joins the IIF as the Executive Vice President for Research and Policy. In his
new role, Mr. Lowery will serve on the IIF’s management team and oversee its economic
research and regulatory and policy advocacy work.
Mr. Lowery served as the Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the US Treasury
Department from 2005 to 2009. In that role, he managed a 200-person team
responsible for economic and financial diplomacy, monetary and banking issues,
currency strategy, and trade and investment practices. He chaired the Committee on
Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the government committee that
reviews international mergers and acquisitions that may affect national security interests.
He was the point person on US policy toward Sovereign Wealth Funds; served as the
Finance Deputy to the G20, G7, International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability
Forum; and was appointed by the President at various times to be the US representative
to the Boards of the World Bank, African Development Bank, European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, and Inter-American Development Bank.
During his fifteen years of US government service, Mr. Lowery held positions with
Treasury – including Paris Club debt negotiator and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Debt and Development Finance; the National Security Council – Director of International
Finance; and the Millennium Challenge Corporation – Vice President of Markets and
Sector Assessments.
Most recently Mr. Lowery was a Managing Director at Rock Creek Global Advisors, an
international economic policy advisory firm, where he focused on international financial
regulation, sovereign debt, macroeconomic policies, exchange rates, and investment
policy. Mr. Lowery advised multinational companies, financial institutions, and private
equity firms on these matters. Previously, Mr. Lowery was Vice President for
International Government Affairs with Cisco Systems and Managing Director for the
Glover Park Group.

Mr. Lowery is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and serves as a
Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was an Adjunct
Professor at Georgetown University in international finance and a lecturer at the National
War College. Mr. Lowery received his BA from the University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa)
and his MSc at the London School of Economics. In 2009, he was awarded the
Alexander Hamilton prize, the highest US Treasury Department honor.