Welcome to GEFRI

Links

Mission and Approach DC Global Center Institute Objectives Research Focus Working Papers Executive Education Program Execution Seminar Series Conferences

About GEFRI

Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) is a GWU Research Center chartered in October 2004

GEFRI DIRECTORS

Theodore M. Barnhill
Professor of Finance & Director of GEFRI
School of Business (SB)

Link to: Bio

Elias G. Carayannis, Associate Director
Professor of Management Science,
Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center
School of Business

Link to: Bio

Christopher Vizas, Associate Director
Entrepreneur, East Wind Partners,
Washington, DC

Link to: Bio

Robert Weiner, Associate Director
Professor of International Business,
Chairman, Department of International Business
School of Business

Link to: Bio

GEFRI FELLOWS

Leandro Alves, Research Fellow

KeChang Chang, Research Fellow

Adnan Soufi, Visiting Fellow 2005 - 2006
Professor of Business Administration,
Faculty of Economics and Administration
King Abdulaziz University,
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Marcos Souto, Research Fellow

Don Stewart, Research Fellow

Ulric Weil, Senior Fellow
Washington DC

Link to: Bio

Ismail Dalla, Visiting Scholar

Link to: Bio

GEFRI Board of Advisors

Dennis Akernahan, Washington D.C.

Gerard Caprio - Director of the Operations and Policy Department, World Bank

Debra Diamond – Adjunct Professor GWU, Venture Capital and Mutual Fund Manager

Robert R. Davis - Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Government Relations, America's Community Bankers

Edgardo Demaestri - Senior Financial Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Charles Frewen – Entrepreneur

Jeffrey C. Hooke - Managing Director, Hooke Associates, LLC,

Andy Klingenstein - Principal, Fairfax Partners

George Kopits - Member of Monetary Council, Central Bank of Hungary

Pietro Masci - Chief of the Infrastructure and Financial Markets Division, Inter-American Development Bank

Atsushi Masuda - Chief Representative for Argentina, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)

Liliana Schumacher - Senior economist in the Africa Department, International Monetary Fund

William Seale - Chief Investment Officer and a Principal, ProFund Advisors LLC.

George Wellde – Head of North American Sales for Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities, Goldman Sachs