Join us for an exciting conversation featuring:

 

• Brent McIntosh, former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs and NSI Advisory Board member
• Jamil N. Jaffer, NSI’s Founder and Executive Director

 

Join us for a conversation with Brent McIntosh as he covers U.S. economic leadership at home and abroad, how the U.S. is recovering from the economic impact of COVID-19, how the U.S. should promote domestic digital currencies to compete against China’s growing digital currency economy, capital control, and Brent will also share his experiences of his recent travel to Myanmar before the military seized control.

 

NSI experts are encouraged to submit questions ahead of time by sending us an email.  Experts can also ask questions during the event throughout the conversation.

 

About Brent McIntosh:

Brent McIntosh is an NSI Advisory Board member and an Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics and Finance at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he focuses on significant economic and financial policy challenges facing the United States and the world.  From 2019 until 2021, McIntosh served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, where he led the Treasury Department’s engagement in the G7 and G20, represented the United States on the Financial Stability Board, managed U.S. participation at the IMF and World Bank, and coordinated Treasury’s international economic and financial policy work. As Under Secretary, he chaired a multilateral project to respond to the growing prevalence of digital assets, and he oversaw the most extensive reform of the U.S. investment security screening regime in its four-decade history. During 2020, he led several successful initiatives to alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic harms.  From 2017 to 2019, McIntosh served as Treasury’s General Counsel.  Prior to that, he was a partner in the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell and served as co-head of the firm’s cybersecurity practice.  McIntosh served in the White House from 2006 until 2009, first as Associate Counsel to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office and then as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Staff Secretary. Before that, he served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department.

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