Antione van Agtmael

Mr. van Agtmael has been a senior adviser at FP which publishes Foreign Policy Magazine and is also a public policy advisory firm in Washington DC. He was the principal founder, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management, LLC (and later chairman of AshmoreEMM), an early and leading investment management firm for emerging market equities.  He was also a founding director of the Strategic Investment Group^SM.  Before founding EMM in 1987, Mr. van Agtmael was Deputy Director of the Capital Markets department of the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”), the private sector-oriented affiliate of the World Bank, a Division Chief in the World Bank’s borrowing operations, Managing Director of Thailand’s leading merchant bank TISCO and Vice President at Bankers Trust Company. While at IFC, he coined the term “emerging markets” in 1981 and founded the IFC Emerging Markets Database.

Mr. van Agtmael is co-author of The Smartest Places on Earth (Public Affairs, 2016), author of The Emerging Markets Century (Free Press, 2007), Emerging Securities Markets (Euromoney, 1984), and co-editor of The World’s Emerging Stock Markets (Probus Publishing, 1992). He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and taught at the Harvard Institute of Politics and Thammasat University, Bangkok. He has lectured widely at universities and other professional audiences around the world. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School, an M.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

He is a long-time Trustee of The Brookings Institution (and was founding Chairman of its International Advisory Council), University of the People (an online, tuition-free university with over 270,000 students from all over the world including over 50,000 refugees), the NPR Foundation (where he was also Chair and a board member of NPR), and the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. He was Chair of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and has been on the board of Magnum Photos and the India Growth Fund. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a member of the Yale President’s Council on International Activities and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married with two grown children and two grandchildren.