Dan Negrea

Dan Negrea is the senior director of the Atlantic Council's Freedom and Prosperity Center. He was the State Department's special representative for commercial and business affairs between 2019 and 2021. He was a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning office between 2018 and 2019, where he was responsible for the economic portfolio. For three decades before that, he held leadership positions in Wall Street firms. He defected from Communist Romania where he had been an official in the Ministry of Finance and was involved in negotiating government loans with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He holds an MBA from Cornell University and an MA from the School of International Economic Relations in Bucharest, Romania.