Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss Explained

Afsaneh Beschloss
Birth Name:Afsaneh Mashayekhi
Birth Date:28 July 1956
Birth Place:Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Spouse:Michael Beschloss
Children:2
Education:University of Kent (BA)
St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil)

Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss (born July 28, 1956) is an American economist and entrepreneur. She is the CEO of RockCreek, an investment firm that she founded in 2003. Since the firm's inception, it has invested over $15 billion in woman-owned and minority-owned firms.

Background

Beschloss was born in Tehran, Iran in 1956. Her father, Mohammad Mashayekhi, was a prominent education reformer and president of a national teacher training university during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi despite his political leanings towards liberal democracy and Mohammad Mosaddegh.[1]

Her father was initially barred from leaving the country following the overthrow of the shah during the 1979 revolution, but Mashayekhi's family came to the United States in the 1980s, settling in the Washington, D.C. area and becoming American citizens.[2]

Education

Beschloss received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Economics from the University of Kent, and M.Phil. in Economics from St Antony's College, Oxford.[3] [4]

Career

Beschloss taught international trade and economic development at Queen Elizabeth House, as part of the Oxford University Diplomatic Studies Programme. She began her career in the United States at J.P. Morgan in corporate finance.[5] She then moved to the World Bank, of which she became Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer.[6] She was a member of the 1994 class of the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow program.[7]

She led the World Bank's energy investments and policy work on areas including renewable energy, power and infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions. In 1987, Beschloss also worked at Shell International Group Planning in London, and later became a managing director and partner of the Carlyle Group.[8]

Beschloss founded the investment firm RockCreek Group in 2003.[9] As of 2019, it managed over $14 billion in investments. The firm was an early adopter of investments based on environmental, social, and corporate governance.[10]

In 2018, Beschloss was appointed to trustee positions at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Dana–Farber Cancer Institute,[11] [12] as well as to the board of directors at the Center for Global Development.[13] She co-chaired the 2018 Conference of Montreal for the International Economic Forum of the Americas.[14] [15] In 2019, she joined the Board of Trustees for the National Geographic Society.[16]

She is the co-author of The Economics of Natural Gas (Oxford) and has written numerous journal articles on climate, finance, renewable energy and impact investment, published by Chatham House and The Globe and Mail, among others.[17] [18]

Beschloss was chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for its list of "Great Immigrants, Great Americans 2020" and has received the Institutional Investor Lifetime Achievement Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award.

Beschloss is a member of the Advisory Board for CNBC's 2022 Delivering Alpha Investor Summit.[19]

Other activities

Personal life

She is married to Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian.

In 2008, she contributed $25,000 to the Obama Victory Fund, $10,000 to the Democratic National Committee, and $2,300 to Obama for America.[32]

Notes and References

  1. News: Mohammad Mashayekhi, an education reformer in Iran, dies at 99. Washington Post. 2013.
  2. Web site: Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss . live . https://archive.today/20220625200444/https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/afsaneh-mashayekhi-beschloss/ . 2022-06-25 . 2022-06-30 . . en.
  3. Web site: Afsaneh Beschloss Founder and CEO, The Rock Creek Group. Milken Institute. April 30, 2017.
  4. Web site: Establishing the Margaret MacMillan North American Studies Programme at St. Antony's College in Oxford . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220404055310/https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/north_american_studies_programme.pdf . 2022-04-04 . 2022-06-29 . St. Antony's College.
  5. Web site: Ramiz . Michelle . 2020-08-05 . Afsaneh Beschloss guides investment in greener futures . live . https://archive.today/20220625195511/https://hayatlife.com/2020/08/05/afsaneh-beschloss-green-investment/ . 2022-06-25 . 2022-06-30 . Hayat Life . en-CA.
  6. Web site: 2020-01-27 . Afsaneh Beschloss . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625205449/https://www.gavi.org/governance/gavi-board/members/afsaneh-beschloss . 2022-06-25 . 2022-06-30 . . en.
  7. Web site: Global Leaders for Tomorrow Class of 1994 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160816174540/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1994.pdf . 2016-08-16 . 2022-06-28 . World Economic Forum
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  8. Web site: 2021 . Afsaneh Beschloss . live . https://archive.today/20220625200655/https://rfkhumanrights.org/afsaneh-beschloss . 2022-06-25 . 2022-06-30 . RFK Human Rights . en.
  9. News: Kapadia . Reshma . Climate Change Is the Biggest Investment Opportunity Post-Covid, the CEO of RockCreek Says . Barron's . December 4, 2020.
  10. News: Delevingne . Lawrence . Kerber . Ross . RockCreek CEO looks for profit in renewables, affordable housing . Reuters . November 6, 2019 . en.
  11. Web site: Board of Trustees . live . https://archive.today/20220626144104/https://www.ddcf.org/who-we-are/our-people/board-of-trustees/ . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30 . Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
  12. Web site: 2018-02-21 . Dana–Farber Cancer Institute appoints six new members to Board of Trustees . live . https://archive.today/20220626143825/https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2018/dana-farber-cancer-institute-appoints-six-new-members-to-board-of-trustees/ . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30 . Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.
  13. Web site: 2022 . Afsaneh Beschloss . live . https://archive.today/20220626141002/https://www.cgdev.org/page/afsaneh-beschloss . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30 . . en.
  14. News: Beschloss . Afsaneh . 2018-06-10 . Business must take up the fight against inequality . en-CA . The Globe and Mail . 2022-06-30.
  15. Web site: 2018 . A new globalisation: Managing uncertainty . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626150357/https://forum-americas.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/programmeMontre%CC%81alang2018v5.pdf . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-29 . . 11.
  16. Web site: 2019-04-02 . Afsaneh Beschloss and Kevin J. Maroni Join National Geographic Society Board of Trustees . live . https://archive.today/20220626144359/https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2019/04/02/afsaneh-beschloss-and-kevin-j-maroni-join-national-geographic-society-board-of-trustees/ . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30 . National Geographic Society Newsroom . en-US.
  17. Web site: Julius . Dame DeAnne . 2021-10-27 . Can the G20 agree a global carbon price? . live . https://archive.today/20220626145025/https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/10/can-g20-agree-global-carbon-price . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30 . . en.
  18. Book: Julius . DeAnne . The Economics of Natural Gas, Pricing, Planning & Policy . Beschloss . Afsaneh . . 1990 . 9780197300114.
  19. Web site: Delivering Alpha . live . https://archive.today/20220628070402/https://www.cnbcevents.com/delivering-alpha-2022/ . 2022-06-28 . 2022-06-30 . . en-US.
  20. https://www.redcross.org/about-us/who-we-are/leadership/board-of-governors/afsaneh-beschloss.html Board of Trustees: Afsaneh Beschloss
  21. Web site: Altman . Alexandra . 2015-06-30 . Institute for Advanced Study Appoints Three New Trustees - Press Release . live . https://archive.today/20220625234027/https://www.ias.edu/news/newtrustees-2015 . 2022-06-25 . 2022-06-30 . . en.
  22. Web site: 2020-04-09 . Blum Center Welcomes New Board Members Michelle Nunn and Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss . live . https://archive.today/20220626143532/https://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/blum-center-welcomes-new-board-members-michelle-nunn-and-afsaneh-mashayekhi-beschloss/ . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30 . Blum Center for Developing Economies . en-US.
  23. Web site: Leadership and Secretariat . 2022-06-30 . The Bretton Woods Committee.
  24. Web site: 2022 . Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss . live . https://archive.today/20220626142253/https://www.cfr.org/bio/afsaneh-mashayekhi-beschloss . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30 . . en.
  25. Web site: 2020-10-16 . DC Resident Named to Georgetown University's Board of Directors . live . https://archive.today/20220626140050/https://www.georgetown.edu/news/afsaneh-mashayekhi-beschloss-named-to-georgetown-universitys-board-of-directors/ . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30 . . en-US.
  26. https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/pbs-foundation-board-of-directors-elects-afsaneh-beschloss-as-chair/ PBS Foundation Board of Directors Elects Afsaneh Beschloss as Chair
  27. Web site: June 2018 . Afsaneh Beschloss . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200924205931/https://cde.williams.edu/files/2018/06/Afsaneh-Beschloss.pdf . 2020-09-24 . 2022-06-29 . Center for Development Economics at Williams College.
  28. https://www.cgdev.org/page/board-directors Board of Directors
  29. Web site: Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss . live . https://archive.today/20220223184047/https://www.weforum.org/people/afsaneh-mashayekhi-beschloss . 2022-02-23 . 2022-06-30 . . en.
  30. Web site: 2002 . 2002 Annual Report . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220626232655/https://www.rbf.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/2002-AR-web-optimized.pdf . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-29 . Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
  31. Web site: Our Board Chair. World Wide Web Foundation. 9 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160216143246/http://webfoundation.org/about/board/afsaneh-mashayekhi-beschloss/. 16 February 2016. dead.
  32. Web site: 2013-01-21 . Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss - $12,300 in Political Contributions for 2008 . live . https://archive.today/20130621072632/http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/afsaneh-mashayekhi-beschloss.asp?cycle=08 . 2013-06-21 . 2022-06-30 . CampaignMoney.

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