Nick Rey
Counselor
After a 40-year career in international finance, investment banking, and diplomacy, Ambassador Nick Rey advises the Eurasia team on a broad range of matters. Ambassador Rey worked during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations as an international economist in the US Treasury Department and, in the late 1960s, he was the staff assistant to the secretary and director of the Treasury Department's executive secretariat. In 1970-71, he was a staff member of President Nixon's Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy. From the 1970s to the early 1990s, Rey was a managing director in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns, specializing in international finance with clients in Europe, Japan, and Latin America. He was an early leader in the Yankee bond and ADR markets. In 1990, he was appointed by President George Bush as a director of The Polish American Enterprise Fund financed with $240 million and designed to jumpstart private enterprise in the post-Soviet Poland. President Bill Clinton nominated Rey to be the ambassador to Poland, where he served from 1993 to 1997. Today, Ambassador Rey serves as a director of The Polish American Freedom Foundation, the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, as well as the Polish American Enterprise Fund. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has a BA from Princeton University and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.