The book was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2010 Spear's Book Award (Financial History Book of the Year), the 2010 Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal, the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Lords of Finance Īhamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009). Through his production company, Red Wine Pictures, Ahamed was a producer on the 2006 film The Situation, set in Iraq. He is a member of Board of Trustees at the Brookings Institution and is involved with the New America Foundation. From October 2007 he has been a director of Aspen Insurance Holdings and in addition advises several hedge funds, including Rock Creek Group and The Rohatyn Group. Īhamed has worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C., where he headed the bank's investment division, and at the New York-based partnership of Fischer, Francis Trees and Watts, a fixed-income business and subsidiary of BNP Paribas, where he served as Chief Investment Officer and from 2001–2004 as Chief Executive. He was educated at Rugby School in England, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University. Liaquat Ahamed was born in Kenya, where his grandfather had emigrated to from Gujarat by way of Zanzibar in the late 19th century. Liaquat Ahamed (born 14 November 1952 in Kenya) is an American author.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |