Jon Lieber is Eurasia Group's head of research and managing director for the U.S. In these roles, he oversees the firm's global country and macro analysis and directs U.S. political coverage.

Before joining Eurasia Group, Lieber worked for more than a dozen years at the highest levels of the U.S. government, including as an economic policy advisor for the House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and in the National Economic Council at the White House. Lieber has also worked as a tax policy consultant at a global accounting firm, an economist at a San Francisco-based technology startup and a researcher covering monetary policy at the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a master's degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Tufts University. Lieber lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys being a permanent beginner student of music theory.