Center for Financial Stability

Subscribe to CFS Updates

Experts

Charles Schott
Senior Advisor
cschott@the-cfs.org

Charles Schott has extensive experience in international investment and finance policy, as well as in matters involving international trade, telecommunications, technology, venture capital and business strategy. He has held senior positions in both the public and private sectors.

Mr. Schott served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade and Investment Policy at the U.S. Treasury, where he was responsible for trade negotiations and for matters relating to international investment. His office was active on issues relating to the World Trade Organization and the negotiation of bilateral and regional free trade agreements, particularly on matters relating to financial services and investment. His office also oversaw the Treasury-chaired inter-agency Committee of Foreign Investment (CFIUS) in the United States. Mr. Schott also served as senior advisor to Invest in America, the U. S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration initiative to promote foreign direct investment, where he helped design and grow the new organization.

Prior positions in the public sector have included serving as Chief of Staff at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as the FCC’s Division Chief for Mass Media Policy, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Administrator of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) in the U. S. Department of Commerce.

In the private sector, Mr. Schott utilized his strategic business and consulting expertise for firms such as Intellectual Ventures, where he served as head of strategic sales and marketing; McKinsey & Company as a management consultant in the London office; and Charles Schott and Associates where he currently leads a management consulting practice. He also served as one of the founding executives of Hearst New Media & Technology, an operating group of the Hearst Corporation, where he was responsible for the creation and operation of Hearst New Media Ventures and, subsequently, as the founder of Paradigm Partners, LLC, a strategic advisory firm based in Greenwich, CT.

He started his career as a corporate attorney in the New York and Washington, DC offices of Dewey Ballantine. He is currently the Chief Innovation and Growth Officer for give4me, LLC, a company which helps clients improve business results by helping others. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in Washington, DC.

Mr. Schott received a B.A. in history and an M.B.A., both from Stanford University, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

 

Advisory Board

Randal K. Quarles

William R. Rhodes

Eduardo Aninat, Ph.D.

Sheila Bair

Senator Bill Bradley

Joyce Chang

M. Shafik Gabr

Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA

Henry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Barbara G. Novick

Guillermo Ortiz, Ph.D.

Richard L. Sandor, Ph.D., Dr. Sc.h.c.

Myron S. Scholes, Ph.D.

The Honorable Carole L. Brookins (2010-20)

Judge Richard A. Posner (2010-20)



Experts

Sheila Bair
Advisory Board Member and Senior Fellow

William A. Barnett
Director / Advances in Monetary and Financial Measurement

David Beers
Senior Fellow / Sovereign Risk Analysis and Policy

Bradley J. Bondi
Senior Fellow / Legal Studies

Kevin R. Brock
Senior Fellow / Cybersecurity Strategy

Alvin Chua
Senior Advisor

Stephen Dizard
Special Counselor

John D. Feldmann
Senior Fellow

Kate Flanagan
Senior Fellow / Consumer Finance

Peter Flocos, Esq. (Trustee)
Managing Director, Policy and Regulation

Patricia Wilson Fridley
Senior Advisor

Diane B. Glossman
Senior Fellow / Financial Institutions

Lawrence Goodman
President and Founder

Steve H. Hanke
Special Counselor

Steven Lofchie
Senior Fellow / Legal Studies

Robin L. Lumsdaine
Senior Fellow / International Finance

Jack Malvey
Special Counselor

David X Martin
Special Counselor

Ryan Scott Mattson
Research Associate

Nicholas Sargen
Senior Fellow / Global Markets and Investment Management

Charles Schott
Senior Advisor

Kurt Schuler
Senior Fellow / Financial History

Liting Su
Research Associate

Jeff van den Noort
Chief Technology Officer

Yubo Wang
Senior Fellow / Financial Markets