Harry G. Broadman Biography

Building on his thirty-five year career in international banking and finance; private equity investment in emerging markets; negotiation of foreign investment and trade agreements and treaties; assessment of governance and political risks in local, national, and regional markets; and senior-level policy-making and enforcement in both the executive and legislative branches of government, Harry G. Broadman recently joined the Faculty of Johns Hopkins University, where he is Director of the Council on Global Enterprise and Emerging Markets, at the graduate School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC. He is also a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins’ Foreign Policy Institute.

Concurrently, Broadman is CEO and Managing Partner of Proa Global Partners LLC, a boutique global business strategy management consulting firm that develops and helps execute innovative approaches to capitalize on ‘first mover’ business opportunities in emerging markets while mitigating commercial, political, corruption, and reputational risks. The firm’s clients include corporations, investment banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, multilateral financial institutions, and professional services firms.

He is also extensively engaged as a Keynote Speakeron the prospective dynamics of global markets; drivers of future shifts in economic policy and regulatory regimes; innovative supply-chain and partnership approaches being undertaken in international investment operations and strategies; and impending changes in the political risk environment. His audiences are typically senior executives and officials in the private- and public-sectors around the world.

In addition, Broadman is a Monthly Columnist for Forbes; Newsweek (Japan); and Gulf News, where he writes on the intersection of global business and public policy.

He is a life-time Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Member of the Bretton Woods Committee. He serves in several Non-Executive Board of Director roles, including on the Board of Directors of The Corporate Council on Africa, the Board of Directors of Partners for Democratic Change, the Board of Advisors of the Global Business School Network, and the Board of Advisors of The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic.

Broadman has published several books and authored numerous professional articles published in a wide array of peer-reviewed economics, foreign policy and law journals. His two most recent books are: Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier and From Disintegration to Reintegration: Russia and the Former Soviet Union in International Trade.

Throughout his career he has developed deep practitioner expertise in a number of specialties: the design and diagnostics of multinational corporate operations and competitive strategy; supply chain management and market integration efficiencies; cross-border deal origination and capital-raising; anti-corruption, compliance and reputational due diligence strategies; innovative approaches to asset allocation and development of performance metrics; competitive market intelligence; formation of strategic alliances, public-private-partnerships and CSR initiatives; antitrust and competition policy reform; project finance; corporate governance reform; and economic development policy.

Broadman’s professional experience spans a variety of industry sectors, including finance, banking and insurance; oil & gas and minerals; non-fossil fuel energy & natural resources; a broad set of industries in the services sectors, especially telecommunications, aviation, shipping and ports, rail, trucking, construction, entertainment; capital-intensive manufacturing; and light industrial products, such as pharmaceuticals, textiles and consumer goods; and regulated infrastructure utilities.

He has worked at the field-level in geographical diverse settings across the globe, including not only all of the advanced countries, but also, with few exceptions, in most emerging markets: Africa; China; India; Russia and the CIS; Eastern and Central Europe; the Balkans; Brazil and much of Latin America; almost all of East Asia, including Myanmar; and parts of the Middle East.

In late 2015 Broadman stepped down as Senior Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he founded and led PwC’s Management Consulting Emerging Markets Business Strategy Practice, which realized US$7 million in global annual fees and encompassed more than 25 professionals around the world. He also served as PwC’s Chief Economist.

Prior to PwC, Broadman was Managing Director and served on the Investment Committee at Albright Capital Management LLC, a private equity and alternative strategy investment fund focused exclusively on emerging markets. He was also Managing Director at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global consultancy chaired by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Previously, Broadman was a senior official at the World Bank Group, where he negotiated and executed some of the Bank Group’s largest loan operations, including those in China and East Asia; Russia and the CIS; the Balkans; and sub-Saharan Africa.

Before joining the Bank Group, he served in the Executive Office of the President as US Assistant Trade Representative, where he oversaw all US negotiations on international trade and investment in the services sectors in the creation of both NAFTA and the WTO, including the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS); led all negotiations of US Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs); sat on the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC); and served on the White House Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS).

Earlier, Broadman served in the White House as Chief of Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and on Capitol Hill as Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, then chaired by Senator John Glenn.

Prior to those appointments, Broadman was Assistant Director of Resources for the Future, Inc.; Consultant at the Rand Corporation; Fellow at the Brookings Institution; and on the faculties of Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University.

Broadman received an A.B. in economics and history, magna cum laude, from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.

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