Economic Statecraft Task Force
About IGP’s Economic Statecraft Task Force
Led by Secretary Jacob J. Lew and Eddie Fishman, the Economic Statecraft Task Force is a collaborative partnership between IGP and Columbia SIPA’s Center on Global Energy Policy that convenes policymakers, academics, and private sector experts to analyze the tools of economic statecraft and the impact of their deployment.
IGP’s Economic Statecraft Task Force is a forum for examining how economic tools — from sanctions and technology controls to tariffs and industrial policy — are reshaping the international order and taking center stage in the US national security agenda. By drawing on lessons learned from the past two decades and assessing the current landscape shaping economic statecraft, the task force aims to identify and help bridge gaps in both research and understanding.
Task Force Activity
"The facts that are being used for the basis of designation, those had to be irreproachable," said IGP Faculty Policy Director and former Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, who led the Treasury Department under the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. – NPR
Former US Treasury Secretary and former US Ambassador to Israel Jacob J. Lew says he's most concerned that the administration hasn't fully weighed the risks of a broader conflict as it wages war in Iran. – CNN
The task force, which is composed of thought leaders with distinguished backgrounds in government, civil society, and the private sector, will be chaired by Secretary Jacob J. Lew and Edward Fishman.
Our Team
Secretary Jacob J. Lew is a professor of international and public affairs at SIPA. In the Biden administration, he served as US ambassador to Israel. Previously, he served as the 76th Secretary of the Treasury and White House chief of staff in the Obama administration. Lew has also served in numerous roles at the White House and in Congress, including twice as director of the Office of Management and Budget, as well as in private sector roles at Citigroup and New York University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a member of the bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He holds an AB from Harvard University and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.
Edward Fishman is an adjunct senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy and director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the New York Times–bestselling author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare. Previously, Fishman served at the US State Department as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as Russia and Europe Sanctions Lead, at the Pentagon as an advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and at the US Treasury Department as special assistant to the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. He has also worked in operating roles at several high-growth technology companies. He holds a BA from Yale University, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Task Force Members
- Wally Adeyemo, Former Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury Department
- Alice P. Albright, Former CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, Columbia SIPA
- Jason Bordoff, Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy
- Theodore Bunzel, Managing Director, Head of Lazard Geopolitical Advisory
- Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Jon Finer, Former Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor; Former IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow
- Jeffry Frieden, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University
- Mike Froman, President, Council on Foreign Relations; Former US Trade Representative
- Julian Gewirtz, Senior Research Scholar, IGP/SIPA
- Merit Janow, Dean Emerita, Professor of Practice, International Economic Law & International Affairs, Columbia SIPA
- Emily Kilcrease, Senior Fellow and Director, Energy, Economics and Security Program, Center for a New American Security
- Nikita Lalwani, Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Lecturer, Johns Hopkins SAIS
- Stuart Levey, EVP and Chief Legal Officer, Oracle Corporation and Former Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
- Brent McIntosh, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Citigroup; Former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
- Chris Miller, Professor, The Fletcher School
- Richard Nephew, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
- Mike Schmidt, Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University; Former Director of the CHIPS Program Office at the Commerce Department
- Jesse Schreger, Professor, Columbia University and the Global Capital Allocation Project
- Brad Setser, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Daleep Singh, Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist , PGIM, Former US Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics
- Adam Szubin, Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Of Counsel at Covington
- Matthew C. Waxman, Liviu Librescu Professor of Law, Columbia University
- Juan C. Zarate, Chairman and Cofounder, Center for Economic and Financial Power (Foundation for Defense of Democracies); Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combatting Terrorism (2005-2009); first-ever Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes; Author of Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
