A New Issue of Moral Cents is Out!
April 23rd, 2013We are close to the five-year anniversary of the global financial crisis, if we take ...
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Dr. Kara Tan Bhala
President and Founder
Dr. Kara Tan Bhala has a rare combination of professional training and extensive experience in both global finance and moral philosophy.
She has over twenty-three years of experience in global finance, much of which was gained through working on Wall Street. She has been a sell-side equity analyst, a sell-side equity sales person, a buy-side equity analyst, and a portfolio manager. From 1992-2001, Dr. Tan Bhala was a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch and the Senior Portfolio Manager of the Merrill Lynch Dragon Fund and Emerging Tigers Fund. At its height, the Merrill Lynch Dragon Fund was the second largest Asian ex-Japan mutual fund in the world, with assets over $1 billion. Before running the Dragon Fund and Emerging Tigers Funds, Dr. Tan Bhala was a portfolio manager with Fiduciary Trust International in New York, where she ran the Far East equity portion of the United Nations Pension Fund. Dr. Tan Bhala currently runs her own international financial markets consulting firm and has been a consultant for hedge and mutual funds based in Kansas City. She is a lecturer at the University of Kansas School of Business where she teaches Global Finance and Ethics and Financial Institutions and Careers.
Dr. Tan Bhala has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, The Far East Economic Review, and several other publications, and has been interviewed on Adam Smith’s Money World. She has published articles in The Harvard International Review, The Journal of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs, among others and has contributed to The Handbook of Portfolio Management. Dr. Tan Bhala has lived and worked in London, Oxford, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Dr. Tan Bhala has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Kansas, specializing in moral philosophy. She has a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Kansas, a Masters in Liberal Studies from New York University, a Masters in Management from Oxford University, and a Bachelors in Systems and Management from the City University of London, England.
Cristian Dimitriu
Institute Fellow
BA in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. PhD in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. Currently Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities and Western Civilization Program, University of Kansas; and Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Scientific and Technological Research Council of Argentina. He specializes in Global Justice and Analytic Political Philosophy. He is currently doing research on the ethics of international debts, international fair trade, human rights and other topics.
Angela Lutz
Editor
Angela Lutz is a writer and editor living in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned her BA in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Jake Lazzo
Research Associate
BA, Philosophy (2012), University of Kansas
Travis Strawn
Research Associate
BA, Economics (2011), University of Missouri Kansas City
