Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss
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Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss (born July 28, 1956 in Iran.[1]) is a United States national who is the director of broadcaster PBS and chief executive officer of the hedge fund company Rock Creek Group.[2]
Education
Beschloss has an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University.
Career
Beschloss become the chief investment officer of the World Bank in 1996. In 1999 she changed role to become the bank's treasurer. Beschloss has also 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.[3] She is a past member of the board of directors of Temple-Inland, and of the commercial property firm AMB Property Corporation.
Current activities
Beschloss 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, the Urban Institute and a member of the board of directors of World Resources Institute.[4] She advises international pension funds and central banks and has written a number of journal articles and books. She is a trustee at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Personal life
Beschloss is married to presidential historian Michael Beschloss.
