 Roger S. Leeds, Professor of International Finance and Director of the Center for International Business and Public Policy
His primary expertise focuses on international financial markets, private equity and venture capital investing in emerging markets, and the private sector's role in development. During a 30 year career in the public and private sectors, as well as academia, Dr. Leeds has worked as an investment banker and private equity investor structuring and valuing a broad range of cross-border financial transactions; as an advisor to governments on financial market reform, privatization, project finance and direct foreign investment promotion; and as an academic, teaching and writing on a range of subjects pertaining to international financial markets, privatization, and private equity investing in emerging markets. Dr. Leeds has worked in more than 100 countries in Asia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Latin America and Africa. Dr. Leeds is the author of Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Nations: Learning From Experience, and more than 25 articles on a range of international finanical subjects in publications that include The New York Times, Euromoney, The Banker, Finance and Development, The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, The Washington Post, The Journal of International Affairs and World Development. In addition, he has been a guest commentator on numerous radio and television programs including CNN, CBS News CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Voice of America and National Public Radio. Dr. Leeds is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served on numerous boards and advisory committees. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and PhD from Johns Hopkins University.  Gordon M. Bodnar, Morris W. Offit Professor of International Finance and Director of International Economics Program at SAIS
Author of a variety of articles in international economics, finance and accounting. Dr. Bodnar's articles have appeared in top academic journals in finance, accounting and economics as well as more practitioner oriented journals. He is also a co-author of the Wharton Surveys of Derivative Usage by U.S. Non-Financial Firms. His areas of research interest are exchange rate risk management and the valuation of foreign operations. Formerly as Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Rochester, he is a memeber of Weiss Center for International Financial Research at the Wharton School and was also a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Bodnar is an associate editor of European Financial Management, Journal of Asian Economics, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, on the editorial review board of the Journal of International Business Studies, and has been a consultant to major firms, regulatory bodies and the international research organizations. Dr. Bodnar received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and previously taught at Princeton University and the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. In addition to Dr. Bodnar and Dr. Leeds, SAIS has a number of adjunct faculty members drawn the private and public sectors that teach in the area of International Finance.
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