Elizabeth Shortino is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Public Sector practice based in Washington, DC. Ms. Shortino has more than 15 years of experience working in the U.S. government and in international financial institutions working at the intersection of international finance and development policy. Ms. Shortino has helped shape international financial and development policy through her work at the United States Treasury Department, the International Monetary Fund, work with multilateral development banks, and leading U.S. Treasury engagement in the Finance tracks of the Group of 7, and Group of 20.
As U.S. Executive Director at the IMF from 2021-2025, Ms. Shortino represented the United States on IMF lending to Ukraine, Argentina, Pakistan, Egypt, and other major country programs. Ms. Shortino has worked on sovereign debt restructuring policy at the IMF and negotiated U.S. sovereign loan guarantees for countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Ms. Shortino’s notable achievements include designing the U.S. finance agenda for its 2020 presidency of the Group of 7; securing a doubling of IMF crisis resources; overseeing IMF lending to countries in crisis such as Pakistan, Egypt, Ukraine, Jordan; and helping drive the launch of a $250 million multi-donor technical assistance fund at the World Bank.
Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Shortino represented the United States at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC where she served as the U.S. Executive Director. Previously, Ms. Shortino spent more than 10 years at the Department of Treasury and held leadership positions covering the Middle East, North Africa, and international monetary policy. Ms. Shortino also worked at the Office of Management and Budget covering USAID and State Department economic assistance programs, and she began her professional career as a consultant for Cap Gemini Ernst and Young.
Ms. Shortino earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a minor in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a masters degree in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She currently serves as a Nonresident Fellow for the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center, and she is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.