BOARD OF MANAGERS
Dr. Nouriel Roubini, RGE Chairman, Co-Founder
Nouriel Roubini is the co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an innovative economic and geo-strategic information service and consultancy named one of the best economics websites by Business Week, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and The Economist. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998-2000, he served as the Senior Economist for International Affairs at the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.
He has published over 70 theoretical empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and co-authored the books Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence (M.I.T. Press, 1997) and Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets (Institute for International Economics, 2004). Dr. Roubini’s views on global economics issues are widely cited by the media, and he is a frequent commentator on various business news programs. He has been the subject of extended profiles in the New York Times Magazine and other leading current-affairs publications. The Financial Times has also provided extensive coverage of Dr. Roubini’s viewpoints.
Dr. Roubini received an undergraduate degree at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University. Prior to joining Stern, he was on the faculty of Yale University’s department of economics.
Dean Daniels, RGE Chief Executive Officer
Dean Daniels is chief executive officer at Roubini Global Economics. Daniels has been a leader in the online information industry since its inception. Prior to joining RGE, Daniels served as chief operating officer of Seed Media Group, a science media company based in New York City. He has also served as senior vice president at Gartner, Inc., where he managed a division of more than 1,300 researchers worldwide. From 1998-2001, he was president and chief operating officer of theglobe.com, an online community network. Daniels spent the first 20 years of his career in broadcast television, including 14 years at CBS Television in a variety of roles. Most notably, he was the founder, vice president, and general manager of the CBS New Media division, helping the network to launch and establish its digital news and entertainment presence.
Henry Lichstein
Henry Lichstein is a venture partner with Palisades Ventures, LLC. From 1970 to 2000, Henry was with Citibank, holding positions in financial control, treasury, technology strategy, and advanced development. He had been regional treasurer in Nairobi, Kenya, in the Treasurer’s Office, where he also served as the consumer group’s financial controller, treasurer, and chief of staff. He served as interim chief executive officer of Roubini Global Economics and as interim chief financial officer at Lucix, a satellite communications company in Camarillo, CA.
Henry was chairman of the board of Lucix, is on the board of Intelligent Optical Systems, and was on the Board of Teradata (which was later sold to AT&T). He was chairman of the Summer Science Program, Inc., and was a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute. He is on a Visiting Committee at MIT, was for ten years the treasurer of the New York Academy of Sciences, served on the Higher Education Issues Panel of the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities, and helped write the National Academy of Sciences’ Study of the Impact of Information Technology on Service Activities. Henry obtained bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and economics, and a master’s degree in management, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Camille LeBlanc
Camille LeBlanc was the founding chief executive officer of Roubini Global Economics. As founding CEO, Ms. LeBlanc helped build the team that created RGE’s technology and editorial organization platform. Camille has been working with start-ups since 1992. As Director of Strategic Alliances, she launched new business units and developed strategic alliance portfolios for small- and medium-size software and hardware companies. Camille has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a master’s degree from the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley.
William H. Janeway
William H. Janeway is senior advisor at Warburg Pincus, having retired as a vice chairman of the firm in 2006. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 1988, where he was responsible for building the information technology practice, he was executive vice president and director at Eberstadt Fleming. Dr. Janeway is a director of Fortent Corp., NYFIX, Inc., O'Reilly Media, Nuance Communications and Wall Street Systems. He is also chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cambridge in America (University of Cambridge), co-chair of Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary Capital Campaign, and a founding member of the board of managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance. He is also a director and member of the executive committee of the Social Science Research Council. Dr. Janeway received his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar, and received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, where he graduated the valedictorian of his class.
Nicolas Checa
Nicolas Checa joined McLarty Associates in 2003 as managing director and founded the firm's economic and financial policy advisory practice in 2004, helping clients manage economic, financial and foreign policy issues that affect financial markets. Previously he was a partner at Medley Global Advisors, where he was president of Medley Emerging Markets, a stand-alone division that he created as part of the firm’s diversified growth initiatives. He also created and led the firm’s political consulting. Previously, he was director of Penn + Schoen Associates, the political consulting and polling firm that provides strategic advice to Fortune 500 companies and political campaigns worldwide. Mr. Checa is a Yale University graduate and holds a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research.
ADVISORY BOARD
Mohamed A. El-Erian
Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian is chief executive officer and co-chief information officer of PIMCO, the global investment management firm. Prior to rejoining PIMCO at the end of 2007, El-Erian was president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC), where for two years he managed Harvard's endowment and other related assets. He was also a faculty member of the Harvard Business School. He spent 15 years at the International Monetary Fund before moving to the private sector, where he served as managing director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London before joining PIMCO in 1999. He is currently a board member of the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge in America and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He also chairs Microsoft’s Investment Advisory Committee.
El-Erian has written widely on global economic and financial issues, including being a frequent contributor to the Financial Times and Newsweek. His New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller—When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change—was named one of the Economist’s best books of the year and was awarded the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year for 2008. El-Erian earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Cambridge University and doctorate and master's degrees in economics from Oxford University.
Arturo C. Porzecanski
Arturo C. Porzecanski is a former economist for emerging markets at several Wall Street firms, including ABN AMRO, where he was head of emerging markets sovereign research. He is currently teaching and conducting research on international economics and international finance at American University in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the Tinker Foundation.
Marc Uzan
Marc Uzan is the founder and executive director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (www.rbwf.org), where he brings different stakeholders together in numerous seminars around the world on issues related to global finance. Marc works closely with central banks, ministries of finance, and different chairs of the G20. He is also the secretary general of the Euro50Group (www.euro50.org ), and member of the Advisory Board of Central Banking. Marc is the editor of numerous volumes: Financial System Under Stress: A New Architecture of the World Economy; Private Capital Flows in the Age of Globalization; Capital Flows without Crisis?; The Future of the International Monetary System; A Handbook on the International Financial Architecture (with Nouriel Roubini); The International Monetary System, the IMF and the G20; and The Macroeconomics of Globalization. He holds a master’s degree in international economics and finance from the Université de Paris, Dauphine. He has been a visiting scholar at the department of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Charles Ferguson
Mr. Charles Ferguson is founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc. and director and producer of No End In Sight: America and the Occupation of Iraq, which is his first film. In 1994, Mr. Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. He was a visiting scholar and lecturer for several years at MIT and Berkeley and for three years was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is the author of three books and many articles dealing with various aspects of information technology and its relationships to economic, political, and social issues. He has consulted on technology, management and strategy for a range of leading companies and institutions. Mr. Ferguson is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the French-American Foundation. Charles obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.
Carlos Abadi
Carlos Abadi is the founder and president of Abadi & Co., a leading investment firm focused on emerging markets debt and global special situations. Established in 1991, Abadi & Co. was one of the first firms dedicated to the emerging markets asset class and focused on Latin America, emerging Europe and the Middle East. Additionally, Carlos serves on the boards of the Refco Litigation Trust and the Refco Private Actions Trust. He has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, Harvard University and New York University. Carlos Abadi earned a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
