Description
From championing developing nations to funding our carbon-free future, investor and advisor James Harmon reveals how markets can move the world forward by creating stable, growing economies and sound deals that promote economic development.
James Harmon has always had a passion for ambitious causes. As a banker, he successfully advised corporations, like Starbucks, and helped them to become cultural institutions. Dabbling in the movie and music industries, he found meaning in funding the art he felt would make people happy and add to the public good. His unique perspective on investment led him to the Clinton White House as head of EXIM Bank and, eventually, to Egypt, where he represented the State Department shortly after the Arab Spring. Still "up and doing," today he cochairs the board of the World Resources Institute.
Not all of Harmon's deals were successes, and he recounts the wins and losses in equal detail, exposing lessons learned, and even sharing a few farcical scenes featuring Washington's and Wall Street's most notorious bold-face names. No matter where he is replanted, Harmon advocates for global change by examining the issues of our time, including women's financial empowerment and the urgent need to fight climate change. He encourages our leaders to apply lessons learned in the private sector to the world's most demanding challenges, from helping a local community to electing a president or bolstering a developing African nation. Up and Doing presents a tale of the deals that made Harmon a celebrated figure in the world of global investment, and shows that the best way to do well is by also doing good.Author: James Harmon
Publisher: Disruption Books
Published: 11/23/2021
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9781633310544
ISBN10: 163331054X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Business
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Political Science | Public Policy | Economic Policy
About the Author
James Harmon is chairman of the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund, a private corporation seeded by government funds to promote the development of the Egyptian private sector. He is chairman of the board of the World Resources Institute, a global policy and research institution. Nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the US Senate in June 1997, he was the chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States for the four years ended June 2001. Prior to that he was chairman and CEO of the investment bank Schroder Wertheim (1986-1996). He lives in Weston, Connecticut.