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Daniel M. Zelikow , a U. S. citizen, assumed the position of executive vice president of the IDB on March 5, 2007. Prior to joining the Bank, he was the managing director of the Government Institutions Group of JPMorgan Securities Inc., which he joined in 1999 after holding senior positions in the U.S. Department of Treasury.
As deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, he was responsible for financial policy towards the Americas, Asia and Africa, and he headed the task force that oversaw the $20 billion emergency financing program the United States established in 1995 to help stabilize the Mexican economy after the peso crisis. The task force later oversaw U.S. financial support to overcome financial crises in Asian countries and Brazil.
Zelikow was the founding director of the Treasury Department’s Office of Technical Assistance, which became one of the largest providers of policy and technical advice to the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He also served for two years as the senior economic and financial adviser to the president and finance minister of Albania in Tirana.
As managing director of JPMorgan’s Government Institutions Group, Zelikow was in charge of relationships with governments, central banks, and government-owned financial institutions, including multilateral development banks. Zelikow managed transactions ranging from multibillion dollar restructurings of sovereign commercial debts to the securitization of microfinance loans.
A summa cum laude graduate from Dartmouth College, Zelikow holds a doctorate in economics from Oxford University. He has been an active contributor and advisor to nonprofit institutions as well as to ad hoc committees established by multilateral agencies and think tanks. | 