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Read the new and original book lead authored by Seven Pillars Institute's President, Dr. Kara Tan Bhala. The book synthesizes three theories of finance and gives a lucid explanation of ethics and its real world application in investment management.
Dr. Kara Tan Bhala, President of Seven Pillars Institute, contributed a chapter to this handy, engaging and readily accessible volume. Contributors to the book span the academy, financial services and industry. They include Nobel Laureate Professor 
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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.
Dr. Tan Bhala is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Regulation and Ethics at Queen Mary University of London. She is an Advisor for IntegTree Compliance Consulting. She 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 is the lead author of International Investment Management: Theory, Ethics and Practice published by Routledge in 2016 and a contributor of a chapter, “The Decline and Rise of Financial Ethics” to The Business of Ethics (Asian Institute of Finance, 2016). She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, The Far East Economic Review, and other prominent publications, and has been interviewed on Adam Smith’s Money World. Her published articles are 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 Board Member of the Friends of Johnson County Disability Services. In 2017, she was named by Ingram’s Magazine as one of the “50 Kansas You Should Know.” Dr. Tan Bhala was formerly 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 (cdimitriu@hotmail.com)
BA in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. PhD in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. Cristian was a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities and Western Civilization Program, University of Kansas. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. 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.
Eric Witmer
Editor (witmereric@ku.edu)
Eric Witmer lives in Kansas City, Missouri and attends the University of Kansas School of Law. He earned his BA in Film and Video from Pennsylvania State University and also has a Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Eric will finish his Juris Doctor degree in May of 2017.
Interests: Dog-walking and nature
Carolina Rocha
Institute Fellow (carorocharo@gmail.com)
MBA, Harvard Business School, USA
Economic Consultant
Shazia K. Afghan
Institute Fellow (shazia_afghan@hotmail.com)
LLM in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary University of London, England
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Regulation and Ethics, Queen Mary University of London, England
Consultant for the Banking Standards Board, UK
Cynthia Ang
Research Associate (cynthia.yt.ang@gmail.com)
Postgraduate Certificate of Law, University of Hong Kong
MSc, Law and Finance, Oxford University, UK
BA, Law, Monash University, Australia
Geneva Decker
Research Associate (genevalyondecker@gmail.com)
BA, Political Science, Yale University, USA
Interests: Sports (varsity soccer team), traveling, cooking, photography
Lena Dominici
Research Associate (l.s.dominici@lse.ac.uk)
BSc Philosophy and Economics, London School of Economics, UK
Interests: Fighting corruption
Kai Erlenbusch
Research Associate (erlenbusch@mac.com)
Development Manager, World Science Foundation
Currently LLM University of London, UK, BS, Economics Oregon State University
BA, University of California, Los Angeles
Stefanie Hines
Research Associate (mrshines84@gmail.com)
BA Economics, Law, and Policy, Oregon State University, USA
Interests: Jane Austen and Neil Gaiman novels
Georgette Fernandez Laris
Research Associate (geor.fdzl@gmail.com)
MSc. in Economic History (Research), London School of Economics, UK
MSc. in International Economics and Globalisation, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
BSc. in Business Economics, Miami University, USA
Interests: Philosophy of Economics, contemporary dance, languages.
Sherri Lee
Research Associate (sherri113422@gamil.com)
LLB, Law, University of Hong Kong
Interests: Cooking, singing, dancing
Andreas Kanaris Miyashiro
Research Associate (A.A.Kanaris-Miyashiro@lse.ac.uk)
BSc Politics and Philosophy, London School of Economics, UK
Interests: ethics and political economy
Makayla Plummer
Research Associate (plummerm@indian.edu)
BA Political Science, Indiana University, USA
Interests: hiking and boating
Sahiti Nandyala
Research Associate (s.r.nandyala@lse.ac.uk)
BSc International Relations, London School of Economics, UK
Interests: Baking and cross-country running
Ryan Sim
Research Associate (ryansim@college.harvard.edu)
AB Government and Economics, Harvard University, USA
Interests: running the SF Bay area trails, playing guitar
Asami Takeuchi
Research Associate (A.Takeuchi@lse.ac.uk)
MSc, International Political Economy, London School of Economics
BA, Political Science, Waseda University, Japan
Howard Yeung
Research Associate (yeungchhoward@gmail.com)
Bachelor of Social Science and Bachelor of Laws, University of Hong Kong
Shiyu Zheng
Research Associate (S.Zheng11@lse.ac.uk)
MA, Environmental Economics, London School of Economics, UK
MSc, Comparative Politics, University College London, UK
BA, Philosophy and Economics, University College London, UK
Interests: how formal policy-evaluation tools can incorporate vast uncertainties surrounding climate change
Nicola Bilotta
Research Associate (N.bilotta@lse.ac.uk)
Master of Economic History, London School of Economics, UK
MA in Historical Science at Università degli Studi of Milan
Bachelor of History, Università degli Studi di Milano
Interest: Water polo