Zachary Karabell
Zachary Karabell is Head of Global Strategies at Envestnet, a publicly traded financial services firm. He is also President of River Twice Research. He sits on the board of New America and PEN America. In 2003, the World Economic Forum designated him a "Global Leader for Tomorrow." He is a Senior Advisor for BSR.
Previously, he held many senior roles at Fred Alger Management, a New York-based investment firm. He founded and ran the River Twice Fund from 2011-2013, a $25 million alternative investment fund, keying on sustainable business.
Karabell was educated at Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. He taught at several leading universities, including Harvard and Dartmouth.
He has written widely on economics, investing, history and international relations. His most recent book, The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World, was published by Simon & Schuster in February 2014.
As a commentator, Karabell is a Contributing Editor for Politico. Previously he wrote "The Edgy Optimist" column for Slate, Reuters, and The Atlantic. He is a LinkedIn Influencer, a CNBC Contributor, a regular commentator on MSNBC, and was a Contributing Editor for The Daily Beast. He has contributed to a panoply of major American and British newspapers, as well as writing for publications such as Wired and Foreign Affairs.
Publications
In addition to The Leading Indicators, Karabell is the author of eleven previous books, including The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election (which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for best non-fiction book of the year in 2000); Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends On It (Simon & Schuster, 2009); and Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in the 21st Century, co-authored with Aron Cramer (Rodale 2010).
His next book will be a two-century history of money, power and the making of America using the firm Brown Brothers Harriman as narrative arc, to be published by Penguin Press in 2018.