Carl Delfeld
Global Equities & Emerging Markets Specialist, Investment U

Carl Delfeld is a Forbes Asia columnist and founder of Jetsetter Capital, a specialist on emerging and frontier markets. He is also an advisor to Leopard Capital, a frontier markets private equity firm. He represented the U.S. on the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines after serving as a consultant on emerging capital markets with the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.

Prior to this, he opened markets in Japan, Australia and Hong Kong for the investment bank Robert W. Baird & Company and headed up the Japan/South Korea Boston group for Bank of America.

Carl is the author of four books including The New Global Investor and Red, White & Bold: The New American Century. His commentary on global and emerging markets has appeared in publications such as Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes, Fox, Fortune, CNBC, Barron’s, The Economist, BusinessWeek and the Asian Wall Street Journal.

Delfeld has M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts/Harvard) and studied at Sophia University and Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.

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