Board

Robert Z. Aliber is Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago, Director of the Center for Studies in International Finance, and Senior economic advisor for the Agency for Economic Development, U.S. Department of State. He is also on the research staff for the Committee for Economic Development and Commission on Money and Credit.

Professor Aliber has written extensively about exchange rates, and international financial and banking relationships and policy problems. Publications include The Reconstruction of International Monetary Arrangements (ed., Macmillan, 1986), The Handbook of International Financial Management (ed. Dow Jones Irwin, 1989),. and Global Portfolios (co-editor, Business One Irwin, 1991). He is a co-author of Money, Banking, and the Economy (Norton, First Edition, 1981, Fourth Edition 1990).

While at Chicago, he developed the Program of International Studies in Business and the Center for Studies in International Finance. He has consulted to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and to other U.S. government agencies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and to the research institutes and private firms, testified before committees of the Congress, and lectured extensively in the United States and abroad.

 

 

 

 Mr. Chen Fashu is the founder and Chairman of the New Huadu Industrial Group, a very successful private enterprise. Mr. Chen is considered one of the savviest investors in China. He grew up under impoverished circumstances and was unable to complete his compulsory education. He has tried his best to contribute back to society through his wealth-building years. On October 20, 2009, driven by his perseverance and commitment to charity, he established the New Huadu Foundation in his personal capacity to focus on education issues. 

More information on New Huadu can be found here: http://en.nbs.org.cn/ 

Sir Harold Evans is the author of The American Century (Knopf, 1998) and a history of 200 years of innovation entitled They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators (Little, Brown, 2004), which was the basis of a four-part PBS series The American Experience.  An innovative educational company, Contemporary Learning Systems, prepares interactive college courses on innovation starting in 2009 based on They Made America.

Evans was the President and Publisher of Random House Trade Group from 1990-1997.  From 1997-1999 he was Editorial Director and Vice Chairman of U.S. News & World Report, the New York Daily News, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company, a position from which he resigned in January 2000 to devote himself full-time to major writing and television projects.  (Evans remains a Contributing Editor at U.S. News & World Report).

Before moving to the United States, Evans was the editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and editor of The Times from 1981 to 1982.  His account of these years was published in his No. 1 UK best-seller Good Times, Bad Times.

Mr. Finlay was formerly Chairman and CEO of Clay Finlay Inc., a global investment management firm based in New York, which he co-founded in 1982. The firm was acquired in 2000 and Mr. Finlay stepped down from an executive role in 2006. Earlier in his career, Mr. Finlay held senior investment management positions at Morgan Guaranty Trust in New York and Lazard Freres in New York and previously Paris, and was a member of the investment committees of both institutions.

Educated at Oxford University, he is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College and a member of the Chancellors Court of Benefactors. Mr. Finlay served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of Business 1981-1986. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

He Zhiyi is Professor and Chairman of New Huadu Business School and Executive Editor of Peking University Business Review. He earned his Ph.D from the School of Management, Fudan University and his Post-doctor from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.

Mr. He has performed excellently in the fields of academics, government and enterprise. As a scholar in the science of management, he is committed to formulating the management modes of Chinese enterprises and integrating the management practice into theoretical framework. Accordingly, he built the center of enterprise case studies, focusing on the cases of Chinese enterprises and their management, setting up the corpus of case studies and promoting the case study as a part of teaching curriculum. In issuing the Peking University Business Review, Mr. He bridged management practice with the theory of Chinese enterprises. As a businessman, he has engaged with both state-owned and private enterprises, which still play a prominent part in the market. As a social worker, he devotes himself to the promotion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of Chinese enterprises and the active involvement of charity. He sponsored the establishment of CSR League, and started the ranking of the Most Respectable Enterprises in China. In 2010 he was appointed as the Chairman of New Huadu Business School with a view to combining education with charity, and innovation with traditional culture.

Robert E. Kiernan III is the Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Portfolio Management LLC (APM), an investment management company based in New York City, and a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where his research is focused on socially responsible investing (SRI).

Before forming APM, Mr. Kiernan spent eighteen years in the capital markets, based in New York and London with Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers, during which he was responsible for building, managing, and leading several global fixed income and investment banking businesses. Prior to entering the private sector, he held foreign policy positions in the first Reagan administration at USIA, the National Security Council, and the Department of State.

Mr. Kiernan received an AB and AM from Boston College, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Educate Girls Globally, the Research Foundation Review Board of the CFA Institute, the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (London), and the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Karlheinz Muhr is Chairman & CEO of Cenario Capital Management, an asset and risk management firm servicing the institutional market place. Previously, Mr.Muhr was a senior executive with Credit Suisse Group. He served as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Asset Management Division and Head of Credit Suisse Volaris, based in New York. He was also a member of both the Chairman's Board and the Management Council of Credit Suisse. Mr. Muhr was co-founder and Chairman of Volaris Advisors, an alternative asset management business prior to its sale to Credit Suisse in 2003.

Prior to founding Volaris, Mr. Muhr held a variety of senior positions at UBS Warburg. These positions included Head of Global Credit Fixed Income, Head of Corporate Finance for Americas, Member of the Management Committee for the Americas. From 1985 to 1995, he worked in both New York and London for Credit Suisse First Boston, heading Mortgage Derivative Trading, European Credit Fixed Income and Global Asset Swaps. He also served as a member of the European Executive Management Committee and the Global Fixed Income Committee.

A native of Austria, Mr. Muhr has a Master's Degree from Vienna's University for Business and Economics (1982) and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Business at the University of California at Los Angeles (1985). He serves on the following not-for-profit boards: The New York Philharmonic, New York , The Institute of International Education (IIE), Washington DC, The Aspen Institute, Washington DC & Aspen, and on the Columbia University Center on Capitalism and Society. Mr. Muhr is also a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Robert Mundell is University Professor at Columbia University in New York, where he has been since 1974. Prior to that, he spent time at the International Monetary Fund, and taught at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Waterloo (Ontario), among others. He has been an adviser to a number of international agencies and organizations including the Government of Canada, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the US Treasury and numerous governments, institutions and companies around the world.

Mundell prepared the first plan for a European currency and is known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas and the euro. He developed the international macroeconomic model (the Mundell-Fleming model), the theory of growth and inflation (the Mundell-Tobin effect relating monetary expansion, the real rate of interest and economic growth), and was an originator of Supply-Side Economics.

Mundell is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and past presidents of both the North American Economic and Financial Association and the International Atlantic Association. He is the Honorary Co-President of the Mundell International University of Entrepreneurship in Beijing, China and the Co-Chairman of the Annual International Financial Forum in Beijing. He is the recipient of more than sixty honorary degrees and professorships and the Chairman of the Santa Colomba Group in Siena, Italy on Global Money. In 1999, Mundell received the Nobel Prize in Economics for “his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”.

Alfredo F. Navarrete is CFO of Grupo IAMSA, the leading passenger transportation group in Mexico. Alfredo is also CEO of Efficientia Soluciones Integrales, a consulting firm, and member of the board of Deutsche Bank. He is also member of the Circulo Contemporáneo of the Rufino Tamayo Museum.

Alfredo holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

Richard Robb is CEO of Christofferson, Robb and Company (CRC), a New York- and London-based fund management company that invests in asset backed securities and renewable energy assets in Europe and emerging markets. He is also Professor of Professional Practice in International Finance at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, where he teaches courses in microeconomics, economic foundations of capital markets and finance.

Before co-founding CRC, he was the global head of the derivatives and securities subsidiaries of the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Leo M. Tilman is President of L.M. Tilman & Co., a strategic advisory firm that serves governments, financial institutions, corporations, and institutional investors worldwide. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Tilman held senior positions with BlackRock as well as Bear Stearns, where he was Chief Institutional Strategist and Senior Managing Director.

Mr. Tilman teaches finance at Columbia University. He is the author of Financial Darwinism: Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk (Wiley, 2008), co-author of The Risk Paradigm (forthcoming from Oxford, 2009), co-author of Risk Management (Wiley, 2000), and editor of Asset/Liability Management of Financial Institutions (Institutional Investor, 2003).

Mr. Tilman is a contributing editor of The Journal of Risk Finance has been honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.