Barbara Peitsch

Barbara Peitsch is currently a senior program advisor at the William Davidson Institute and until 2016, was a project director/new business development director at the University of Michigan, where she managed many State Department and USAID funded projects in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and elsewhere. Ms. Peitsch headed the European Fixed Income Research Department of Banco Santander in London for several years. She has also worked for First Chicago, now JP Morgan Chase, the OECD in Paris and as a U.S. Treasury advisor. She has an M.P.P. and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan.