NAVIGATING THE GLOBE FOR OPPORTUNITIES WHILE MITIGATING RISKS
Harry Broadman brings a unique mix of global business operational and strategic insights from his executive, corporate board, and international negotiating and policymaking experience across the array of activities in which he is involved:
structuring and financing cross-border corporate, private equity, and institutional investment transactions
driving global enterprise restructuring to foster: sound corporate governance and operational ESG/sustainability practices; robust risk-mitigation and compliance protocols; and first-mover innovation within firms’ core operations on a company-wide basis in order to enhance global competitiveness and national security, propel business growth and achieve higher risk-adjusted returns;
holding independent directorships on several corporate boards;
serving as a faculty member of Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities;
testifying as an expert witness in international arbitration and litigation cases on complex international investment disputes, national security, trade remedy, antitrust enforcement, corporate governance and corruption compliance matters;
delivering keynote speeches that focus on the most pressing international business and market issues of the day;
authoring numerous books, professional articles, and monthly columns on global business operations, sustainability, innovation and strategy; and
interviewing with the international finance and and economics press corps.
For more than 38 years, he has worked as an executive in international finance, banking, and private equity across a wide variety of industries—including natural resources and renewables, infrastructure services, advanced technology and heavy industry—in virtually every part of the world, including on-the-ground in more than 85 emerging markets spanning 5 continents.
He also has had the opportunity to serve at the highest echelons of government, taking on some of the most critical decision-making roles in international trade, research and development, and national security policy during pivotal turning points in rapidly changing global market conditions.
Who Is Harry Broadman?
Harry Broadman’s career path is the epitome of interdisciplinary. While his work has been centered in the private sector—spanning a wide variety of operational executive and non-executive corporate board roles—it also has been interspersed with stints in the public sector, academia, journalism and as an author of numerous books, professional articles and business columns.
He began his career working on economic, environmental, and national security challenges in the energy and natural resources sector at Resources for the Future, Inc., the independent preeminent think tank that gave birth to the fields of “environmental economics,” “ESG,” and “sustainability” decades before they became fashionable.
His private sector focus has evolved across global corporate finance, private equity investment, international banking and enterprise restructuring; founding a global management consulting practice at one of the Big Four on business growth strategy, sustainability and innovation; serving as a non-executive corporate board director; and testifying as an expert witness in international business-to-business and business-to government disputes concerning investment and trade, antitrust, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, national security and corruption.
In the public sector, he has served as a senior White House economic official both at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and as a lead U.S. international trade negotiator for the establishment of the WTO, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and NAFTA; a foreign investment national security regulator as a member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS); the lead negotiator of U.S. international science and technology (S&T) agreements; serving on the board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC); and as senior U.S. Senate committee professional staff member. In addition, he has been on the faculty of Harvard University; a monthly columnist for Forbes, Newsweek, Gulf News and the International Financial Law Review, as well as a frequent columnist for the Financial Times; and engaged worldwide as a keynote speaker focusing on operational approaches for businesses to capture ‘first mover advantage’ while mitigating competitive, corruption and policy risks.
Broadman’s industry sector expertise covers (i) international financial services, private equity, investment banking, and Sovereign Wealth Funds; (ii) applied science and emerging and advanced technology industries; (iii) infrastructure businesses, including ICT, logistics/supply chains, aviation, shipping, ports, rail, trucking, and engineering and construction; and (iv) energy, renewables, and minerals.
He has served as a strategic advisor to companies, banks and investment funds as diverse as IBM, Pepsico, ICANN, PPG, GE, Merck, McCormick, Heineken, Coca-Cola, Walmart, SunEdison, Tyco, Canon, Deere, ITW, Caterpillar, Exxon-Mobil, Mars, Westinghouse, Hilton, Valmet, Avon, Siemens, Dow, Johns Manville, Intel, Standard Chartered, Manitowoc, Corning, McCormick, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, Heineken, Aditya Birla, Weatherford, Mahindra, Nike, Pfizer, CEMEX, Jaguar Land Rover, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, British Airways, Gazprom, CEMEX, Dubai Ports World, Trinidad NO&GC, ERG (KZ), Nokia, RSM, OTPP, Emerging Capital Partners, Kuwait Investment Authority, Canadian Pension Investment Board, Australia Future Fund, Carlyle, Temasek, Apollo, Abraaj, ADIA,TPG, Diageo, Blackstone, among others
He has deep operational understanding of the workings of the global marketplace and its complex spectrum of business, policy and consumer environments. He knows firsthand how firms’ successes and failures are shaped by the ability to anticipate competitors’, suppliers’, customers’ and policymakers’ movements; adapt to markets' cyclicality and non-linearities; adopt changes in technology to foster operational agility; and manage capital allocation and balance sheets to engender financial flexibility.
At the same time, he is a venerable international policy-making practitioner and negotiator dealing with the senior most government officials of many countries, including in some of the toughest markets in the world, as well as engaging effectively—indeed proactively—with a wide variety of other stakeholders to help ensure sustained investment outcomes.
He has been interviewed by/quoted in numerous press outlets, such as The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal; Harvard Business Review; The Financial Times; Science; The Washington Post; The BBC; NPR; Der Spiegel; Politico; The Asahi Shimbun; Kommersant; Bloomberg; Fortune; People’s Daily; Newsweek; Time; Forbes; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; The Guardian; Huffington Post; Euromoney; CNBC; The Times of India; The South China Morning Post; South Africa Broadcast Company; Australia's SBS Television; National Journal; Hindustan Times; China Daily; Rossiyskaya Gazeta; Christian Science Monitor; The East African; El Arabiya; El Pais; L'Express; Izvestia; Daily Sun; and Radio Rwanda.
Broadman has an A.B., magna cum laude, in economics from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is a lifetime Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Bretton Woods Committee.