Mark Sobel is the U.S. chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. He served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury for nearly four decades, including as the deputy assistant secretary for International Monetary and Financial Policy from 2000 to early 2015. From 2015 through early 2018, he was the U.S. representative at the IMF. At Treasury, he led the Department’s work in preparing G7 and G20 finance minister and central bank governor meetings, formulating U.S. positions in the IMF, and coordinating the work of Treasury and regulatory agencies in the Financial Stability Board. He was also chief U.S. financial negotiator in the G20 from 2008–2015, including for the 2009 London Economic Summit. Sobel founded the U.S./EU Financial Market Regulatory Dialogue and chaired an international group of private and official sovereign debt experts that developed enhanced collective action clauses. He managed the Treasury Exchange Stabilization Fund and played a key role on U.S. foreign exchange policy as well as helped coordinate Treasury’s semi-annual Foreign Exchange Report. He holds a BA from Princeton and MA from John Hopkins SAIS.
