Liaquat Ahamed: The Lords of Finance

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Partner:: Aspen Institute
Location:: Paepcke Auditorium
Aspen, CO
Event Date:: 06.28.11
Speaker:: Liaquat Ahamed
Tags:: finance; depression; recession; banking; economics; globalization; federal reserve; history

Summary: The Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

LIAQUAT AHAMED

Investment Banker and Author, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

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DAVID BRADLEY

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Liaquat Ahamed

Liaquat Ahamed is an investment manager and author of the best seller Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, about the lead-up to the Great Depression. The book won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History, the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Gold Medal for 2010, the 2009 Financial Times-Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year, and was selected by The New York Times and TIME magazine as one of their top ten books of 2009.

Ahamed has been a professional investment manager for 25 years; he has worked at the World Bank and the New York-based partnership of Fischer Francis Trees and Watts, where he served as chief executive. He is currently an adviser to several hedge fund groups including the Rock Creek Group and the Rohatyn Group; he is a director of Aspen Insurance Co., and serves on the boards of trustees of the Brookings Institution and the New America Foundation.

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