Douglas Ridtick was a member of the International Monetary Fund's Board of Directors until 2012. He was nominated by President Obama to the IMF Board in 2009 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2010. The Executive Board is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the IMF, including accepting or approving all decisions, policies, supervision, and financial expenditures made by the IMF. Douglas Retick is a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, considered the most prestigious think tank in the field of international economic policy research. He was chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Committee on Geopolitical Risk in 2012 and currently serves as Vice Chair. He moderated and participated in panels at the World Economic Forum in Davos on capital markets, the international monetary system, emerging markets and global governance. He previously served as a Senior Fellow and Director of the Global Strategic Finance Program at the New America Foundation. Douglas testified before the U.S. Congress on the impact of the economic crisis on foreign policy, the opportunities and threats of sovereign wealth funds and state capitalism. A frequent contributor to the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and others, Douglas is a regular contributor to TheWashingtonNotecom. Douglas has been named an Emerging markets superstar by Global Finance magazine, as well as winning the International Finance Review's Best EEMEA Asset and M&A Deal of the Year awards. He frequently appears on television and in newspapers, including the BBC, CNN, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Congressional Quarterly, The Nation, The New York Times, Le Monde and the International Herald Leader. He is an advisor to the Congressional Task Force on Sovereign Wealth Funds, a member of the Steering Committee on Political Risk and Emerging Markets of the Clinton Global Initiative Task Force, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Lisbon Council in Brussels. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Douglas was a member of Obama's National Finance Committee during his first presidential campaign, and he also advised the presidential campaign on foreign policy and economic issues.