The Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a conversation with Brookings Institution trustee and Jackson School board member Antoine van Agtmael ’70, who will share perspectives on the quickly changing trade landscape based on his recent trip to China (with China experts of the Brookings Institution), Korea and Japan. Won Park Hahn Professor of Global Affairs and Management Lorenzo Caliendo will host and moderate the discussion.
Antoine van Agtmael is senior adviser at the FP Group that publishes Foreign Policy magazine. He was the principal founder, CEO, and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC, a leading investment management firm for emerging markets that he led for 25 years. He was also a founding director of the Strategic Investment Group SM. van Agtmael was deputy director at the International Finance Corporation (where he coined the term “emerging markets”), division chief at the World Bank, managing director of Thailand’s leading investment bank TISCO, and vice president at Bankers Trust.
van Agtmael is the co-author of “The Smartest Places on Earth” and author of “The Emerging Markets Century” and other books on emerging markets. He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center, taught at Thammasat University and the Harvard Institute of Politics, and has lectured widely. He was board chair of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler Galleries) and is a director of University of the People, and he has been a director of Magnum Photos. van Agtmael is a trustee of the Brookings Institution (and was co-chair of its International Advisory Council) and the NPR Foundation (and its former chair). He is also on the advisory boards of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, as well as a member of the Yale President’s Council on International Activities and the Council on Foreign Relations. van Agtmael is a graduate of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, has an MA in Russian and East European studies from Yale University, and earned an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
This event is open to all members of the Yale community.
