Presenter

Amer Bisat

Portfolio Manager/Partner, Traxis Partners

Amer Bisat, 46, was born in Beirut, Lebanon to a family with a long tradition of public service (Amer’s father was a senior Ministry of Economy official and his uncle, until recently, the country’s Prime Minister).Amer majored in economics at the American University of Beirut after which he pursued graduate studies in economics and finance at Columbia University in NY. While at Columbia, Amer spent almost two years at the World Bank, turning his experience there into a PhD dissertation that focused on the ideal sequencing of financial sector reform in developing countries. After receiving his PhD in 1991, Amer joined the IMF where he was assigned to the prestigious (and the then newly created) Russia team.While at the Fund, Amer participated in teams that negotiated economic programs in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Egypt, and Cameroon.After eight years at the IMF, Amer joined the private sector, first on the research side, as the European head of emerging markets economics at Salomon Brothers, and then on the asset management side, holding positions at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, UBS’s prop trading desk, and Rubicon where he became partner in the London based macro hedge fund.In 2007, Amer joined his former Morgan Stanley colleagues at Traxis, where he launched the Traxis EM fixed income/FX fund.Amer teaches a popular graduate level class in international monetary theory at Columbia, and continues to write academic and policy research (including a book that he co-authored in 2005 titled Covering Globalization). Amer is on the boards of the Arab American National Museumand Alwan for the Arts.He is married to Nadia Abuel-Haj—a renowned professor of Anthropology at Columbia and Barnard.

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