Jim Rickards

• Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University (1973)
• Master of Arts in International Economics from Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC (1974)
• Juris Doctor from University of Pennsylvania Law School (1977)
• Master of Laws in Taxation from New York University School of Law (1980)

Lawyer

• Former General Counsel for Long-Term Capital Management (1994-1999), the hedge fund at the center of the 1998 financial crisis. Principal negotiator of the Wall Street rescue plan sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, eventually worth $3.6 billion
• General Counsel to Greenwich Capital Markets, the primary dealer in U.S. Treasury bonds at the time
• Admitted to the bar in 1978.
• Licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and the Federal Courts

Economist, Portfolio Manager and Advisor

• 1998 – Was the principal negotiator of the rescue of Long Term Capital Management, sponsored by the Federal Reserve
• Has held senior positions at sell-side firms (Citibank and RBS Greenwich Capital Markets)… buy-side firms (Long-Term Capital Management and Caxton Associates)… and tech firms (OptiMark and Omnis)
• Co-Founder and Chief Global Strategist for Meraglim Inc. (current)
• Has founded several hedge funds and fund-of-funds
• Has held all major financial industry licenses, including Series 3, Series 7, Series 24, Series 30, and Series 63
• Senior Managing Director at Tangent Capital Partners, a merchant bank based in NYC
• Senior Global Strategist at West Shore Funds
• Member of the Business Advisory Board of Shariah Capital, Inc., an advisory firm specializing in Islamic Finance
• Senior Managing Director for Market Intelligence at Omnis, Inc. in McLean, VA, where he specialized in the field of threat finance and market intelligence (as of 2009)
• Member of the International Business Practices Advisory Panel to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
• Serves on the Advisory Board of the FDD Center on Economic and Financial Power in Washington DC
• Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics + global capital (current)

Security Community Insider

• Has applied his financial expertise to missions for the benefit of the U.S. national security community since 2001
• 2009 – Testified before the U.S. House Science Subcommittee on Oversight about the risks of financial modeling and the 2008 financial crisis
• Advises the Department of Defense on global finance
• Led CIA Project Prophecy on Financial Markets
• Facilitator and participant of the first-ever Financial War Game conducted by the U.S. Pentagon
• He has presented papers on risk at Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Author

• Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a financial newsletter
• Author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Death of Money (2014) and Currency Wars (2011)
• Full books list here, translated into 16 languages
• Op-ed contributor to the the Financial Times, Evening Standard, New York Times, and Washington Post, and has been interviewed on BBC, CNN, NPR, C- SPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and The Wall Street Journal

• “…economist who predicted the Great Recession” ~ Business Insider
• “…the man who predicted the biggest financial crisis in American history” ~ Q Magazine
• “…one of the most brilliant minds to emerge from Wall Street” ~ Executive Global
• “Richards has had a long history on the frontlines of financial panics.” ~ Yahoo.com
• “…one of the country’s most respected financial experts” ~ The Investor’s Podcast Network