Liaquat Ahamed is an investment manager and Pulitzer-prize winning author. Ahamed has worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C., where he headed the bank's investment division, and at the New York-based partnership of Fischer, Francis Trees and Watts, a fixed-income business and subsidiary of BNP Paribas, where he served as Chief Investment Officer and from 2001-2004 as Chief Executive. From October 2007 he has been a director of Aspen Insurance Holdings and in addition advises several hedge funds, including the Rock Creek Group and the Rohatyn Group. He is a member of Board of Trustees at... the Brookings Institution and is involved with the New America Foundation. He was born in Kenya, to where his grandfather had migrated from Gujarat, via Zanzibar, in the late 19th century. He was educated at Rugby School in England, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University. Through his production company, Red Wine Pictures, Liaquat Ahamed worked as a producer on the 2006 film The Situation, set in Iraq. His wife Meena Is active with Medecins Sans Frontieres and other charitable enterprises. Ahamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World .
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