Elizabeth Shortino is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. Shortino has two decades of policy experience, having worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the US Treasury Department, and the Office of Management and Budget.  She is also a managing director at Alvarez and Marsal. 

Shortino most recently served as the US executive director at the IMF. She represented the United States on the IMF’s Executive Board and advanced US interests on a range of international issues, including IMF lending to strategic countries; IMF surveillance of global markets and its policy advice on growth; IMF resources and funding; and IMF institutional issues such as risk management and gender diversity.  

Shortino worked for more than fifteen years in public policy at the US Department of Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget. She held multiple roles at Treasury, leading its staff engagement and coordinating all Group of Seven (G7) and Group of Twenty (G20) Finance Track issues, designing and advancing the US agenda for its 2020 G7 presidency, and overseeing the Treasury’s stances on all IMF policy issues and country lending programs. 

Shortino played an important role in US engagement in the Middle East and North Africa during the Arab Spring. As part of the United States’ G7 presidency, she coordinated an international response among the G7, Gulf partners, and international financial institutions to support countries undergoing democratic transitions. At the Office of Management and Budget, Shortino oversaw US appropriations for economic assistance accounts at the State Department and US Agency for International Development.

Shortino holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in international studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.