FORA.tv Speaker - Antoine van Agtmael

Antoine van Agtmael founded EMM with a vision: to offer superior returns with lower risk by applying modern techniques to investing in carefully selected emerging markets equities. He is widely considered a pioneer in emerging markets investing, having coined the term "emerging markets" to describe this unique and exciting asset class. Mr. van Agtmael has served as Division Chief in the World Bank's Treasury operations and as Deputy Director of the Capital Markets Department at the International Finance Corporation. At the IFC, he created the world's first emerging markets equity index and wrote a groundbreaking book on emerging markets. He earned an M.B.A. from New York University, an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from the Netherlands School of Economics.