Biography of Roger Leeds, Ph.D.

Roger Leeds, Ph.D.
     Director of the Center for International Business and Public Policy; Research Professor of International
Finance
Expertise
Geographic Areas
     China | Brazil
Issues
corporate governance and financial markets | developing nations | emerging markets | foreign direct investment | global financial crises | international financial markets | privatization and private sector development | World Bank and International Monetary Fund
Background and Education
     Prior to joining the faculty at SAIS, was an international finance practitioner for 25 years, working as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers, a senior staff member of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank), a partner at KPMG in charge of its global privatization practice and a managing director of a major private equity firm in New York;
founder and first chairman of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association; has taught at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School; has been a guest commentator on CBS, CNBC News, CNN and NPR; member of the Council on Foreign Relations; has served on various boards and advisory committees; Ph.D.,  international relations, SAIS
Foreign Languages
     Portuguese
Publications
     Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned From Experience (2003); author of more than 30 articles and book chapters on international financial and economic issues in developing countries; currently writing a book on private equity in emerging markets
Contact Information:
     Room: Bernstein-Offit 713
     Phone: 202.663.7786
     leeds@jhu.edu

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