Seven Pillars Institute to Collaborate with IntegTree, LLC
June 20th, 2014
Seven Pillars Institute for Global Finance and Ethics (SPI) and IntegTree, LLC are pleased to ...
Staff
Dr. Kara Tan Bhala
President and Founder
Education
PhD (Philosophy) University of Kansas
MA (Philosophy) University of Kansas
MA (Liberal Studies) New York University
MPhil (Management Studies) Oxford University
BS (Systems and Management) City University of LondonDr. 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. She was a lecturer at the University of Kansas School of Business where she taught Global Finance and Ethics and Financial Institutions and Careers. 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.
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 is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) , a Member of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs , a Trustee at Bishop Seabury Academy, Lawrence, Kansas , and a Treasurer on the Friends of the Lied Board, Lied Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas.
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.
Travis Strawn
Research Associate
BA, Economics (2011), University of Missouri Kansas City
USA
Jackie Connor
Research Associate
jackieannconnor@gmail.comEconomics and Finance, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Steven Bauer
Research Associate
stebauer@ku.eduApplied Behavioral Science
University of Kansas
Calvin Benedict
Research Associate
cben090@aucklanduni.ac.nzBA Commerce, University of Auckland
New Zealand
Nicholas Birdsong
Research Associate
Nicholas.Birdsong@ku.eduLaw, University of Kansas
BA, Political Science, Washburn University
USA
Jessica Connor
Research Associate
jessicaconnor@berkeley.eduPolitical Economy, University of California, Berkeley
USA
Will Chu
Research Associate
chuwill@rocketmail.comEconomics and Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
USA
Tracy Geiger
Research Associate
T. Geiger-Faddoul@lse.ac.ukMSc. Regulation, London School of Economics, UK
Law, PontificiaUniversidad Catolica de Chile
Veselin Karadotchev
Research Associate
v.d.karadotchev@lse.ac.ukEconomics & Philosophy, London School of Economics
United Kingdom
Connor B. Lee
Research Associate
Connor23185@gmail.comInternational Studies, Dickinson College
USA
May Leung
Research Associate
kloitre009@gmail.comLaw, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Arjyo Mitra
Research Associate
arya.arjyo@gmail.comEconomics and Finance, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Aparajita Pande
Research Associate
a.pande@berkeley.eduPolitical Science & Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
USA
Connor Rossner
Research Associate
cmr274@cornell.eduEconomics, Cornell University
USA
Kobert Remy Smith
Research Associate
KobertSmith2017@u.northwestern.eduEconomics & Political Science
Northwestern University
USA
Rebecca Wong
Research Associate
r.p.wong@lse.ac.ukLaw, London School of Economics
United Kingdom
Steven Wu
Research Associate
steven.wu@ku.eduLaw, University of Kansas
BA, Political Science and Philosophy
Allegheny College
USA
Wingky T. Yang
Research Associate
winky.t.yang@gmail.comLaw, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Sean Yau
Research Associate
seanyau@hku.hkLaw, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Maria Carrasco Rey
Masters in Public Policy, Australia National University
BA, Political Science and Public Administration, University of Chile
