Rachel Lyngaas

Rachel Lyngaas is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. Previously, she served as the first Chief Sanctions Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she founded and led the Sanctions Economic Analysis Division (SEAD) within Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. She has also held positions at the International Monetary Fund, Treasury’s Office of International Affairs, the U.S. Department of State, and the board of the African Development Bank.