Peter Marber
Seeing The Elephant
Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tale
Wiley, February 2009
An accomplished writer, teacher, and professional investor, few authors combine theoretical and practical experience with globalization more effectively than Peter Marber. Currently, he heads one of the world's largest global emerging markets asset management businesses at HSBC.
Since 1987, Marber has professionally invested billions of dollars in developing countries for many of the world's largest corporations and financial groups. An acknowledged specialist in global investing, he regularly provides analysis and commentary for CNN, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal and has lectured at dozens of international conferences.
Marber has been a faculty member at Columbia University since 1993, teaching at the Business School and School of International and Public Affairs. He has also taught classes at Johns Hopkins and Universidad Francisco Marroquin. Marber has authored more than 100 articles and columns on international finance and globalization. His first book, From Third World to World Class: The Future of Emerging Markets in the Global Economy, was named a top ten business book in 1998 by the Knight-Ridder Newspapers and was called "future reference reading for the 24/7 global marketplace" by Wired magazine in 2001. Endorsers included Walter Wriston, former Citigroup chairman and Jeffrey Garten, Dean of Yale's School of Management.
His last book, Money Changes Everything: How Global Prosperity is Reshaping Our Needs, Values, and Lifestyles, was published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in 2003. David Brooks of the New York Times has noted, "Money Changes Everything is an outstanding primer on the awesome social effects of globalization." Other endorsers included author and Washington Post staff writer Paul Blustein, CNN's Michelle Mitchell, and author James Twitchell.
Marber's forthcoming book focuses on what he calls "The E-8", the eight leading emerging market economies to rival the current G-8.
Marber serves or has served on a variety of boards and societies at the Horace Mann School, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and at the World Policy Institute at the New School.
He earned a certificate from Universite de Paris (IV) - La Sorbonne in 1984, his Bachelors degree from Johns Hopkins in 1985, and his Masters degree from Columbia in 1987. He has been married since 1988, has two children, and lives in Manhattan.
Please visit his website at www.petermarber.com
