Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss

Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss (born ca. 1956) is an Iranian national who is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Rock Creek Group. Prior to this, Ms. Beschloss was the Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of the World Bank, responsible for managing $65 billion in assets and a $30 billion funding strategy, as well as $160 billion in derivatives and structured products. In this position, Ms. Beschloss was instrumental in developing a $3 billion portfolio of alternative investment funds, as well as private equity strategies. Her previous responsibilities at the World Bank included Senior Manager of the Derivatives and Structured Products Group and Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager. Ms. Beschloss worked for J.P. Morgan in New York and London, for Shell International Group Planning in London, and she taught international trade at Oxford University.

She is Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Ford Foundation and is on the Investment Committee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Urban Institute. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Temple-Inland, Inc., [http://ir.templeinland.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=61680&p=irol-govBoard] and of AMB Corporation. She advises international pension funds and central banks and has written a number of journal articles and books.

She has an MPhil (Honors) in Economics from Oxford University and is married to Michael Beschloss, the well known Presidential historian.