Ardavan Mobasheri is a lecturer in Finance and faculty lead of the Chief Risk Officer program at the George Mason University School of Business, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, where he leads the Global Competitions Program.
He is a former Senior Managing Director and Chief Economist at the American International Group, where he led a team of economists and strategists that provided the AIG companies with macroeconomic analysis, forecasts and research on the global economy and financial markets. Ardavan has over 25 years of experience in financial markets and economic analysis, first, in equity portfolio management at Sanford C. Bernstein, and later, in macroeconomic and financial market research and trading at Bear, Stearns. From 2004 to 2007 he was Senior Economist and head of Macro Strategy at Bear Stearns Asset Management. Ardavan also managed the hedging and interest-rate trading and portfolio management activities of numerous fixed income funds.
He pursued his doctoral studies in Economics at the Graduate Center-City University of New York, has an M.A. in economics from Queens College, an M.S. in financial engineering from the NYU and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. He has over twelve years of experience lecturing in Economics, Finance, and Management at Fairfield University, Seton Hall University, the City University of New York, the University of Richmond, and Rice University.
Ardavan is a CFA charter holder and a certified Financial Risk Manager. He frequently speaks at industry and academic conferences, events, and symposiums on such topics as risk management, macroeconomic trends, inflation, emerging markets, and evolving financial markets.