Dr Broadman is a veteran global investment, trade, and science & technology negotiator; international private equity investment executive; independent board director; and advisor to overseas corporations, banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and governments across the Global North and South. He is a worldwide authority and seasoned practitioner on structuring cross-border commercial and sovereign finance and investment transactions; designing sustainability and risk-mitigation governance strategies and policies; operations of the international shipping and logistics sector and management of global supply chains; R&D and innovation strategies; competition policy; and national security.

Beyond all the advanced economies, Dr Broadman has worked on-the-ground in 85-plus emerging markets with businesses and governments across China, India and much of the rest of Asia; the Middle East; all Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey; throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union; the majority of countries on the African continent; and most of Latin America.

Currently he is a Principal at WestExec Advisors and at the RAND Corporation. He also serves as an independent director on several corporate boards. He is a Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and an NACD Master Faculty Member. Dr Broadman is a monthly Business Leadership Strategy Columnist for Forbes and the quarterly National Security Columnist for the International Financial Law Review, on whose Editorial Board he serves. Formerly he was columnist for Gulf News; Newsweek International; and wrote for the Financial Times’ “Beyond BRICS” column.

Immediately prior to his current positions, he was Chief Economist and Senior Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC); Managing Director at Albright Capital Management, the international private equity and alternative strategy investment fund focused on emerging markets chaired by Madeleine Albright; a senior official at the World Bank, where he oversaw the Bank’s largest sovereign finance operations and enterprise restructuring investments totaling more than $3 billion in several of the Bank’s largest clients, including China, Russia and the other former Soviet Union states, as well as the Balkans. He was also the Bank’s Economic Advisor for the entire Africa Region.

Dr Broadman served in the U.S. White House as Chief of Staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for several years after which he served as United States Assistant Trade Representative, where he led U.S. negotiations for the establishment of the WTO; the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Dr Broadman chaired all U.S. negotiations of the nation’s international Bilateral Investment Treaties as well as U.S. international Science and Technology Agreements. He served as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) and also on the board of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Early in his career, Dr Broadman was on the faculty of Harvard University in its Economics Department as well as in its Kennedy School of Government’s Energy and Environmental Policy Center; an Economics Fellow at The Brookings Institution; Senior Economist at Resources for the Future, Inc. (RFF); on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); and on the staff at the RAND Corporation. He 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.