Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Chief of Staff Dan Katz is set to leave the Trump administration and join the International Monetary Fund as the first deputy managing director, three sources familiar with the matter told The Post.
Katz, a former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who joined the Treasury Department in January, will become the most senior American at the IMF, working under Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian economist and ex-EU commissioner.
“He is one of the secretary’s closest confidantes,” said one insider. “It is a big win for President Trump’s America First economic agenda on the international stage.”
A Treasury spokesperson declined to comment.
The Yale graduate and Goldman Sachs alum, who also served in the first Trump administration, played a key role in thrashing out the US’s economic partnership deal with Ukraine and is seen as Bessent’s point man on China.
Bessent has recently criticized the IMF for “mission creep” and accused it of promoting woke causes in a speech in downtown DC in April
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