Antonio Weiss is a partner in investment firm SSW and a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center. He served in the Obama Administration as Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, where he oversaw the department of Domestic Finance and was point-person on the debt crisis in Puerto Rico. Prior to joining Treasury, Mr. Weiss served in various leadership roles at Lazard in New York and Paris for over twenty years, including as Global Head of Investment Banking.

Mr. Weiss is a director of Banco Santander and a Senior Advisor to JAB Holding. He is a trustee or director of The Volcker Alliance, the Citizens Budget Committee, the Bretton Woods Committee and the French-American Foundation, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a director and past Publisher of the leading literary quarterly, The Paris Review. Mr. Weiss earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale College and M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and Loeb Fellow.