Lesley Chavkin

Lesley Chavkin is currently at Ribbit Capital and is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Economic Statecraft Initiative in the GeoEconomics Center. Prior to joining Ribbit Capital, she worked at Paxos, the Stellar Development Foundation and JPMorgan Chase, and also served in a variety of roles at the US Department of the Treasury, including as an international economist in the Office of African Nations, as a senior policy advisor focused on the Middle East, and as Treasury’s financial attaché to Qatar and Kuwait from 2017 to 2020. Chavkin holds a master’s degree in development economics and international security from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts in political science and international affairs from the University of Washington.