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Peter N. Marber
URIS, Room 600
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-5117
pm100@columbia.edu
Biography:
Peter Marber is chief business strategist for emerging markets at HSBC Global Asset Management in New York. He was formerly Founding Partner and Chief Strategist for The Atlantic Funds, LLC, which was acquired by HSBC in June 2005. Since 1987, Marber has professionally invested billions of dollars in the emerging markets for many of the world's largest corporations and financial groups. He began his career at UBS, and he was a co-founder and President of the emerging markets subsidiaries at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Marber has been a faculty member at Columbia University since 1993, teaching at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Business School. He has also taught at Johns Hopkins and Universidad Francisco Marroquin. Marber has been a global analyst for CNN, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal and has lectured at dozens of international conferences.
Marber has authored more than 100 articles and columns on international finance and globalization, as well as three books including Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail (Wiley, 2009); Money Changes Everything: How Global Prosperity is Transforming Our Needs, Values, and Lifestyles (FT Prentice Hall, 2003); and From Third World to World Class: the Future of Emerging Markets in the Global Economy (Perseus, 1999). He has two forthcoming books including Brave New Math: Information, Globalization, and the Need for New Policy Thinking (2013) and Higher Education in the Global Age: Education Policy and Emerging Societies (2013). He serves on a variety of boards for Columbia University, the New America Foundation, and World Policy Institute, and holds degrees from Johns Hopkins and Columbia.
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