Nathan Sheets

Dr. Nathan Sheets is a Global Chief Economist at Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. He re-joins Citi from PGIM Fixed Income, where he was Chief Economist and Head of Global Macroeconomics Research for the past four years.
Prior to PGIM Fixed Income, Sheets served as Undersecretary of the US Treasury for International Affairs under President Barack Obama.
He was last with Citi from 2011 to 2014 as Global Head of International Economics.
Prior to his first posting at Citi, he was with the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C.
for 18 years.
During his tenure, he served in a variety of roles, including Director of the Division of International Finance and as an Economist to the FOMC.
Among his most notable accomplishments, he acted as the Fed Chairman’s international adviser at the onset of the European fiscal crisis in the spring of 2010.
He was also a key force behind the Federal Reserve Board’s global emergency lending program during the global financial crisis.
While on leave from the Fed, he worked at the International Monetary Fund as senior advisor to the U.S.
Executive Director from 2006 to 2007.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D.
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.