Antoine W. Van Agtmael

Antoine W. van Agtmael is a Founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Emerging Markets Management, LLC (EMM), one of the world’s leading investment management firms for emerging market equities, based in the Washington, DC, area, with over $10 billion under management for institutional clients around the world. He is also a Director of the Strategic Investment Group. 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 Thai Investment and Securities Ltd., Thailand’s leading merchant bank, and Vice President at Bankers Trust Company. He is the author of The Emerging Markets Century (Simon & Schuster, January 2007), Emerging Securities Markets (Euromoney, 1984), and co-editor of The World’s Emerging Stock Markets (Probus Publishing, 1992). While at IFC, he coined the term “emerging markets” and founded the IFC Emerging Markets Database. He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and taught at the Harvard Institute of Politics and Thammasat University, Bangkok. He holds an MBA degree from New York University, an MA in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University and a BA (Econ. Cand.) in Economics from the Netherlands School of Economics. He is a Trustee of The Brookings Institution and Chairman of its International Advisory Council as well as a member of the Executive and Investment Committees. He is Chair of the NPR Foundation and a member of the Board of NPR. He is also a Trustee of The Washington National Opera. He is on the President’s Council on International Activities at Yale University, and the Advisory Council of Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.