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Phil Lovegren is a nonresident senior fellow with the Economic Statecraft Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. He works at Banca Mifel as the director for strategy and international regulatory affairs and as an independent consultant.
Prior to Mifel, he worked at the US Department of the Treasury for twelve years, including nearly four years as Treasury’s financial attaché to Mexico and Central America based in Mexico City. He also served as attaché to Pakistan in Islamabad and acting attaché to Afghanistan in Kabul. In addition, Lovegren worked in multiple offices as an international economist in Treasury’s Office of International Affairs in Washington, where he helped advance US priorities on macroeconomic, financial regulatory, international development, and national security policy.
Lovegren holds master’s degrees in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and applied economics from the University of Maryland. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in government, history, and English from the University of Texas at Austin. Early in his career, he worked as a staffer in the Texas state legislature and on political campaigns in the state. He lives in Mexico City with his husband and their son.