Jeremiah S. Pam

Jeremiah S. Pam is a specialist in international responses to sovereign financial, economic and governance crises in developing countries where there are significant international security interests.  Pam's project seeks to identify effective and realistic strategies for U.S. and international civil side assistance to strengthen institutionally weak states.  Pam's work places particular emphasis on local public finance institutions and budgets as a focal point for the alignment of both local and international and civilian and military (including counterinsurgency) efforts.

In 2006-7, Pam worked in the U.S. Treasury Department and served a year in Baghdad as the U.S. Treasury financial attaché in Iraq, where he was the senior Treasury official in the country and led the U.S. Embassy's financial diplomacy and policy efforts. Since joining USIP as a visiting research scholar with the Center for Sustainable Economies in November 2007, Pam has continued to participate in policy assignments.  In March and April 2008, Pam traveled to Iraq as a member of a team organized by the U.S. Embassy in Iraq and the Multi-National Force-Iraq to conduct an assessment of Iraqi governance and U.S. governance assistance efforts throughout the country.  From November 2008 to February 2009, he served as one of five co-directors of a 200-person interagency strategic assessment of the Middle East organized by U.S. Central Command, and helped lead the assessment mission to Afghanistan.

Previously, Pam was an international finance lawyer with an international firm in New York, where he advised governments on resolving sovereign debt crises. During 2005, Pam was also a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, where he co-taught the course on international business transactions.  Earlier in his career, Pam served for four years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and spent three months on the U.S. National Security Council staff under a graduate internship program.

Pam holds a J.D. degree and a certificate in international and comparative law from Columbia Law School, an M.A. degree in political science from Columbia University and an A.B. degree in social studies from Harvard College.