Daniel Heath
Board Member
Daniel Heath is the founding board member of the Urban
Entrepreneur Partnership, a one-to-one business coaching program
of the Kauffman Foundation. As managing director of the Center for
Transformation and Strategic Initiatives, he leads an international
nonprofit group of academic experts and practitioners devoted to
improving public administration of economic and regulatory
agencies. He also is senior fellow at Georgetown University’s
Institute for International Economic Law, where he directs projects
and conducts research on the political economy of finance,
especially in emerging markets in the United States and abroad.
Until recently Mr. Heath represented the United States at the
International Monetary Fund as alternate executive director.
Confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2007, he served on the Executive
Board at the most critical time in generations as the IMF guided
macroeconomic policies, assisted countries in financial trouble,
reformed its governance, and created opportunities for private
enterprise and growth around the world. Areas of engagement
included international economic governance, financial diplomacy,
monetary and exchange rate policies, capital mobility, private sector
development, regulation of financial markets and sovereign
wealth funds.
Prior to his IMF position Mr. Heath was a director in the White House
National Economic Council for two presidents, responsible for small
business and entrepreneurship, international food aid and rural
development, and economic opportunity issues. He currently serves
as a board member and past chairman of the National Bankers
Association Foundation; advisor to Five Stone Green Capital LLC, a
minority-owned New York firm investing in environmentally innovative
real estate projects; and trustee of Lyndon Institute, a preparatory
school in Vermont.
Until 1995, Mr. Heath was senior economist for natural resources
and international trade at the White House Office of Management
and Budget. Earlier in his career, he managed economic studies at
Oxford Analytica in Europe, the Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth College, and the White House Council on International
Economic Policy.
Raised in Vermont, educated at Oxford University and George
Washington University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa,
Mr. Heath has run his family’s farm business, published in political
economics, lectured in American and overseas universities, and he
often speaks publicly on economics topics.
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