Sheynberg Joins APCO

Raisa Sheynberg

Raisa Sheynberg, a former senior advisor to the Treasury Department who was also director for international economic affairs at the National Security Council, has joined Washington D.C. PR and business strategy giant APCO Worldwide, where she’s been named a director.

Sheynberg joins APCO from the National Security Council, where she was director of trade and investment and advised the White House’s chief of staff as well as the national security advisor and the director of the national economic council. She was previously a senior advisor in the terrorism and financial intelligence office at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she collaborated on shaping sanctions and focused on illicit finance issues. 

Before joining the Treasury Department, she was a macroeconomic research and analysis fellow at Alfa Bank, the largest private commercial bank in Russia. While receiving her master’s degrees from Georgetown, she was a teaching assistant to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Sheynberg will serve as a director in APCO’s Global Solutions Practice, which advises political leaders, CEOs and high profile individuals. She’ll be stationed in the agency’s Washington headquarters.