Armeane M. Choksi, Ph.D.
Financier, Author, Former Vice President of the World Bank
Dr. Choksi has been integrally involved in international finance in both the private and the public sectors for over 30 years.
Dr. Choksi spent 22 years with the World Bank rising to the senior executive position of Vice President. During his tenure there, Dr. Choksi negotiated investment projects and economic policy changes with governments of several emerging markets in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. He was integrally involved with Presidents, Prime Ministers, Finance Ministers and Planning Ministers in the macroeconomic stabilization, privatization and the trade and financial reform programs for Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela. After leaving the World Bank, Dr. Choksi was Founding Partner and President of two investment companies, Rubicon Capital that invested in Latin America and Hudson Fairfax Group that invested in India. Subsequently, he was Chairman of Option 3 Ventures LLC, a cyber security investment firm and Director of Copia Global, an internet-based consumer retail company (similar to Amazon.com) in Africa.
Dr. Choksi has published extensively on foreign trade and economic liberalization and has been an Adjunct Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania for nine years. He received the award for Alumnus of Notable Achievement from the University of Minnesota. He also serves on several governing boards and national cabinets including The Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine, The National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, The Heller-Hurwicz Economic Institute at the University of Minnesota, The University of Edinburgh USA Board, and The American Enterprise Institute. He has also served on the Boards of the Washington National Opera, the Washington Ballet, Levine Music, the National Cathedral School for Girls and Microcredit Enterprises
Dr. Choksi holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a Master of Engineering from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, both in chemical engineering and an MA and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.