Mr. Baukol advises clients on issues at the nexus of emerging technologies, economic security, and financial policy. His career in the U.S. government spanned over thirty-four years, spending twenty-seven years at the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and eight years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

At Treasury, Mr. Baukol advised senior officials on a variety of international economic issues, including global macroeconomics, exchange rates, international debt policy, investment security, and financial regulatory issues at the IMF, World Bank, and multilateral development banks. He negotiated dozens of communiques of the G7, G20, and IMF. Mr. Baukol ended his career at Treasury as Counselor to the Treasury Secretary, focusing on international issues. During periods of Presidential transition, Mr. Baukol served as Acting Secretary in 2021 and as Acting Deputy Secretary from 2017 to 2021. He performed the duties of the Under Secretary for International Affairs in 2017 and again from 2021 to 2022, where he represented Treasury as the G7 and G20 finance deputy. He was Treasury’s transition coordinator from 2020 to 2021. He also served as co-chair of the G7 Cyber Experts group.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Baukol was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Monetary Policy from 2015 to 2021 and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa and the Middle East from 2005 to 2015. He also worked on issues related to South and Southeast Asia as well as the former Soviet Union. Additionally, while at Treasury, Mr. Baukol represented the U.S. government on the Executive Board of the IMF from 2001 to 2004. Before Treasury, while at the CIA, he was an economic analyst focused on the Soviet and Russian economies.

Mr. Baukol received his M.A. in economics from the University of Minnesota and his B.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University.