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Stephen Dizard
Special Counselor
sdizard@the-cfs.org

Stephen Dizard is a special counselor to the Center for Financial Stability, focusing on bond markets, exchanges, and global liquidity.

Outside his role at the CFS, Mr. Dizard is the managing partner of Wood Capital Partners. He founded Wood Capital Partners in 2006, which was contracted to Elliott Management Corporation, a New York based hedge fund, where his focus was on catastrophe insurance and reinsurance. Stephen co-headed the Citigroup Special Situations Group from 1999-2006, managing proprietary positions in distressed investment strategies.

In 1984, he joined Salomon Brothers corporate bond department, co-founding the firm’s emerging markets global sales, trading, and research efforts, which included its banks in Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Prior to Salomon, he worked in Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb’s corporate finance group, advising governments on debt restructurings.

Mr. Dizard has served as a guest scholar and staff member in the Brookings Institution’s foreign policy group. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Michigan Honors College and did his graduate work on national security at Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

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