Biography
Max Yoeli is a senior research fellow in the US and North America Programme at Chatham House, where his research focuses on US politics, foreign policy, and economic statecraft, with particular attention to energy and technology policy, state capacity, and the nexus between policy and markets. Prior to joining Chatham House, Max served in the US Department of Commerce, where he worked across trade, economic, technology and climate issues.
Before serving in government, Max worked as a policy adviser to former US secretary of the treasury Jacob Lew at Lindsay Goldberg, where he covered macroeconomic and geopolitical developments with a particular focus on US fiscal policy, economic statecraft and US-China relations. Previously, he clerked for the Hon. Jesse Furman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and worked at Boies Schiller Flexner and Bridgewater Associates.
Max has written across economic, regulatory, and foreign policy issues including, most recently, ‘Abundance as a Foreign Policy’ (Foreign Policy) and ‘America’s Last Chance With the Global South: In an Age of Great-Power Competition, Washington Needs the G-20’ (Foreign Affairs, with Leslie Vinjamuri). He earned his JD (cum laude) from New York University School of Law, where he was a Furman academic scholar and won the law and economics prize, and his BA in History from Dartmouth College. Max has participated in the Manfred Wörner Seminar and MIT’s Seminar XXI, and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and member of the bar in New York.
