Harry G. Broadman

Berkeley Research Group, LLC & John Hopkins University Faculty

Washington, DC

Partner

Harry G. Broadman is a Partner and Chair of the Emerging Markets Practice at the Berkeley Research Group LLC (BRG), a global consulting firm focused on disputes and investigations, corporate finance, and business strategy and operations. Broadman serves as an expert witness on litigation involving complex trade and investment transactions; antitrust and regulation; corporate governance and shareholder rights; damages valuation; corruption (FCPA and UK Anti-Bribery Act); and matters before CFIUS.

His clients include U.S. and non-U.S. multinational corporations, commercial and investment banks, private equity firms, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices and high net worth individuals. Broadman has been an advisor to entities as diverse as GE, IBM, Coke, Canon, Exxon-Mobil, Valmet, Abraaj, Corning, Heineken, Merck, Pepsi, Walmart, Deere, Mars, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Intel, Temasek, Berkshire Hathaway, McCormick, ICANN, SunEdison, ITW, Westinghouse, Siemens, Standard Chartered, Microsoft, Manitowoc, KIA, PPG, Tyco, Caterpillar, ADIA, Dow, Future Fund, and Avon.

Concurrently, Broadman is a member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he is Director of Johns Hopkins’ Council on Global Enterprise and Emerging Markets as well as Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins’ Foreign Policy Institute. In addition, he is a monthly columnist for Forbes, Newsweek International and Gulf News, where writes on global business growth, risk and innovation.

Broadman is a Board Leadership Fellow and a member of the Master Workshop Faculty at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). He currently serves on the Board of ArmorText, a cybersecurity end-to-end enterprise-wide communication software and services provider; the Board Directors, the Executive Committee and Chair of the Audit Committee of PartnersGlobal, an international alternative dispute resolution (ADR) entity operating in 22 countries; the Board of Directors of Strategic Ratings, a U.K.-based corporate and sovereign credit ratings agency; and the Advisory Boards of The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic, a healthcare and telecom services provider in Africa, and The Global Business School Network, which oversees a set of strategic alliances between top business schools in advanced countries with those in emerging markets.

Broadman’s industry sector expertise spans banking and finance; technology and infrastructure services, especially transportation, informatics and telecoms, logistics, construction and professional services; and energy, mining and natural resources. He has extensive international operational experience, not only in all advanced countries, but also in 80+ emerging markets across 5 continents.

Prior to joining BRG, he was CEO and Managing Partner of Proa Global Partners LLC, an emerging markets-focused cross-border investment transaction consultancy, providing hands-on operational and negotiation advice for C-Suite executives and for executives in the field.

In 2015, Broadman stepped down as Senior Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he founded and led PwC's Global Business Growth Strategy Management Consulting Practice, whose clients were iconic U.S. and non-U.S. Fortune 100 corporates, private equity firms, investment houses and sovereign wealth funds. He also served as PwC’s Chief Economist, closely working with PwC’s Audit and Tax Practices.

He was Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee at Albright Capital Management, a private equity and alternative strategy investment fund focused on emerging markets, co-chaired by Madeleine Albright. He was also Managing Director of The Albright Group (now Albright Stonebridge), a business diplomacy consultancy. Earlier, Broadman was a senior official at the World Bank, where he oversaw the Bank’s largest sovereign finance operations and enterprise restructuring investments in China, Russia and the Balkans. He also served as Economic Advisor for the Africa Region.

Broadman worked in the White House, first as Chief of Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the first Gulf War and the Savings and Loan Crisis, and then as United States Assistant Trade Representative. In this latter position, he led the

U.S. negotiations on trade and investment across all services industries as part of the establishment of both NAFTA and the WTO, including the GATS, and he also managed all negotiations of U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with other sovereigns. He was a Board Member of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and served on the White House Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), which assesses national security impacts of inbound investment.

He came to the Executive Branch after serving as Senior Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, then chaired by John Glenn, during which Broadman was a core drafter of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act.

Prior to his government service, Broadman was on the Harvard University faculty; staff member at the RAND Corporation; Assistant Director, Center for Energy Policy at Resources for the Future, Inc.; and fellow at the Brookings Institution.

He has authored several books and numerous professional articles published in a wide array of peer-reviewed finance, economics, law, and foreign policy journals. His most recent books are: Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier; From Disintegration to Reintegration: Russia and the Former Soviet Union in the Global Economy; and The State As Shareholder: China's Management of Enterprise Assets.

Broadman is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of The Bretton Woods Committee.

He received an A.B. in economics and history, Magna Cum Laude, from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.

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