- Zachary Karabell
Zachary Karabell is an American author, historian, money manager and economist.
Karabell is President of [http://www.rivertwice.com/ River Twice Research] , where he analyzes economic and political trends. He is also a Senior Advisor for Business for Social Responsibility. Previously, he was Executive Vice President, Head of Marketing and Chief Economist at Fred Alger Management, a New York-based investment firm, and President of Fred Alger and Company, as well as Portfolio Manager of the China-US Growth Fund, which won both a Lipper Award for top performance and a 5-star designation from Morningstar. He was also Executive Vice President of Alger's Spectra Funds, a no-load family of mutual funds that launched the $30 million Spectra Green Fund, which was based on the idea that profit and sustainability are linked. At Alger, he oversaw the creation, launch and marketing of several funds, led corporate strategy for acquisitions, and represented the firm at public forums and in the media.
Educated at Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D., he is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Chimerica: How the United States and China Became One and What That Means for the World, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2009, and previous books such as A Visionary Nation: Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead, The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election (which won the
Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for best non-fiction book of the year), and Peace Be Upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian and Jewish Coexistence (Knopf, 2007), which examined the forgotten legacy of peace among the three faiths.In 2003, the
World Economic Forum designated Zachary a "Global Leader for Tomorrow." He sits on the board of theWorld Policy Institute and theNew America Foundation , and is a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations . He is a regular commentator on national news programs, such asCNBC ,CNN , and a contributor to such publications asThe Wall Street Journal ,The Los Angeles Times ,The New York Times ,Newsweek andForeign Affairs .References
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Goodwin-t.html?8bu&emc=bu The Pragmatic Caliphs, The New York Times, January 6, 2008]
* [http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/08/20/qa-with-algers-zachary-karabell-credit-crunch-doesnt-dim-corporate-prospects/ Q&A With Alger’s Zachary Karabell: Credit Crunch Doesn’t Dim Corporate Prospects, Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online, August 20, 2007]External links
* [http://www.rivertwice.com/ River Twice Research]
* [http://www.weforum.org/en/Search%20Results/index.htm?ssUserText=Karabell&id=2 World Economic Forum - Karabell]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=15081 Author Biography at Random House Website]
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