Peter Marber

Author, teacher, Wall Street professional - Peter Marber is a founding member of Aperture Investors based in New York.

An award winning investor, Marber has managed billions of dollars for many of the world's largest corporations and financial groups. He previously headed emerging markets investments for Loomis, Sayles & Co. and HSBC Global Asset Management. Prior to that, he was founding partner and Chief Strategist for The Atlantic Funds, LLC which was acquired by HSBC in 2005.He began his career at Swiss Bank Corporation, and he was founder and president of the emerging markets subsidiaries at Wasserstein Perella.

Marber currently teaches at Harvard and Johns Hopkins, and he previously taught at Columbia and New York University. In 2017 he won the J. Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award at Harvard. He was named a fellow for the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2014. Dr. Marber has lectured at dozens of international conferences, and has been a market commentator for CNN, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal. He serves on boards for the Emerging Markets Traders Association, New America Foundation, St. John's College.

He has authored more than 100 articles and columns on international finance and globalization. His first book, From Third World to World Class: The Future of Emerging Markets in the Global Economy, was named a top ten business book in 1998 by the Knight Ridder newspapers and was called "future reference reading for The 24/7 Global Marketplace" by Wired magazine in 2001. His second book, Money Changes Everything: How Global Prosperity is Reshaping Our Needs, Values, and Lifestyles, was published by Financial Time Prentice Hall in 2003. David Brooks of the New York Times has noted, "Money Changes Everything is an outstanding primer on the awesome social effects of globalization." His third book, Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail, was published by John Wiley in 2009. He has edited two volumes for Routledge with Daniel Araya including Higher Education in the Global Age: Policy, Practice, and Promise in Emerging Societies (2012) and The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age (2013). He is currently working on a new book investigating political risk in 21st century.

A native New Yorker, Marber earned his bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins, his masters at Columbia, and his PhD. from Cambridge University.