New Frontier Investors

Jagdeep Singh Bachher is Chief Investment Officer of theUniversity of California’s pension, endowment, short-term, and total returninvestment pools. Previously he was Executive Vice President, Venture and Innovation,and Deputy CIO at AIMCo. He is also chairman emeritus of the InstitutionalInvestors Roundtable, a global organization representing long-term investorssuch as sovereign wealth funds and pension funds worth collectively over $11Trillion. In 2012 he was named in the Global Top Forty Under Forty ChiefInvestment Officers of aiCIOMagazine. He also serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council onthe Future of Investing. He holds a BASc in mechanical engineering and an MAScand PhD in management sciences from the University of Waterloo.Adam D. Dixon is Reader in Economic Geography at the University ofBristol. He is also a non-resident research affiliate at Stanford University’sGlobal Projects Center, the European Centrefor Corporate Engagement atMaastricht University in the Netherlands, and IE Business School’s SovereignInvestment Lab in Madrid. His research focuses on financial globalization andthe political economy of institutional investors, particularly sovereign wealthfunds and pension funds. He is the author of The New Geography ofCapitalism: Firms, Finance, and Society (Oxford University Press 2014) andco-author with Gordon L. Clark and Ashby H. B. Monk of Sovereign WealthFunds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power (Princeton UniversityPress, 2013). In addition to his scholarship, Dr Dixon has worked with a rangeof international organizations and NGOs, such as the OECD, the AsianDevelopment Bank, the Center for Global Development, and the Pacific PensionInstitute. He holds a D.Phil. in economic geography from the University ofOxford, a Diplôme (Master) de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Parisin finance, and a BA in international affairs from The George WashingtonUniversity. Dr Ashby H. B. Monk is the Executive and Research Director of the Stanford Global ProjectsCenter. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford anda Senior Advisor to the Chief Investment Officer of the University ofCalifornia. Dr Monk has a strong track record of academic and industrypublications. He was named by aiCIOmagazine as one of the most influential academics in the institutionalinvesting world. His research and writing has been featured in TheEconomist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, FinancialTimes, Institutional Investor, Reuters, Forbes, andon National Public Radio among a variety of other media. His current researchfocus is on the design and governance of institutional investors, withparticular specialization on pension and sovereign wealth funds. He receivedhis Doctorate in Economic Geography at Oxford Universityand holds a Master'sin International Economics from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne anda Bachelor's in Economics from Princeton University.

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