Jeffrey Rosensweig

Director of the John Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Jeffrey Rosensweig is the Director of the John Robson Program for Business, Public Policy, and Government at Goizueta Business School of Emory University. Previously, he served for six years as Associate Dean for Corporate Relations. An international business and finance professor, he focuses on global investing and business in the global economy. He also specializes in financial, macroeconomic, and business forecasting. Jeff is a frequent keynote speaker to leading executives on topics related to global economic and financial trends and forecasts, In 2000, Dr. Rosensweig was elected a lifetime member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.

Professor Rosensweig is often quoted in the national business press, including FORBES, FORTUNE, and BUSINESSWEEK.  He has appeared nationally on ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT and GOOD MORNING AMERICA, the NBC TODAY SHOW, NBC National Nightly News, NigHTLINE, BLOOMBERG TV, and he is a frequent economic commentator for CNN.  He has published numerous papers in academic and business journals. He has written three books, including the critically-acclaimed Winning the Global Game: A Strategy for Linking People and Profits.

Active in executive education, Dr. Rosensweig was recently selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of the 12 favorite professors in all Executive MBA Programs worldwide.  Dr. Rosensweig received his M.A. and B.A. in economics (summa cum laude) from Yale University and a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  Further, he received a master’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics as a result of two years of study at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar.  The British Government selected him to serve on the Marshall Scholarship Selection Committee for 16 years, including six years as Chairman for the Southeast.

Before Emory, Dr. Rosensweig served as senior global economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Other previous experience includes serving as an economic consultant to the Government of Jamaica and teaching international finance at Yale’s School of Management.  Elected by the faculty in 1996, Professor Rosensweig served for 12 years as Chairman of Emory University’s Center for Ethics. He has also been the Pack Leader for a multicultural group of over 100 Cub Scouts.