Ardavan Mobasheri

Ardavan Mobasheri is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies on economics, macro strategy and how to relate them to corporate strategy and planning. He is also an active public speaker and university lecturer.

He is a former Senior Managing Director and Chief Economist at the American International Group. He joined the company in June 2008 to start the Macroeconomic Analysis and Risk Assessment effort within Enterprise Risk Management and in 2010 was appointed Chief Economist and head of AIG Global Economics. His team of nine economists and strategists provided AIG companies with macroeconomic analysis, forecasts and research relating to the top fifty economies and their respective insurance and financial markets. The teams forecasts and research were vital inputs into the operating activities of Chartis, SunAmerica Financial Group, United Guaranty, Enterprise Risk Management, Asset management Group, Strategic Planning, Finance, and Global Capital Markets and Treasury in areas such as budget and long-term planning, stress testing, portfolio asset allocations, and mortgage insurance pricing. He was an active member/participant in executive and senior management committees and meetings and regularly provided AIG executives updated macro perspectives. He was also an active participant at various internal and client events and conferences and authored a popular weekly economic commentary.

Ardavan has over 22 years of experience in financial markets and economic analysis, first, in equity portfolio management at Sanford C. Bernstein, and later, in macroeconomic and financial market research and trading at Bear, Stearns. Between 2000 and 2002 he was a partner and head of risk management and trading at TriStar Advisors a NY based global macro hedge fund. In 2002, he returned to Bear Stearns, first joining the portfolio strategies group as a Senior Fixed Income Strategist, and later from 2004 to 2007 he was Senior Economist and head of Macro Strategy at Bear Stearns Asset Management. Ardavan also managed the hedging and interest-rate trading and portfolio management activities of numerous fixed income funds.

He pursued his doctoral studies in Economics at the Graduate Center-City University of New York, has an M.A. in economics from Queens College, an M.S. in financial engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. He has nearly a decade of experience teaching Economics and Finance at Fairfield University and the City University of New York and is presently an Adjunct Lecturer and Professor of Economics and Finance at Baruch College/City University of NY.

He is an active member of the Conference of Business Economists, the National Association for Business Economics, the Amsterdam Circle of Chief Economists, and a former member of the Conference Board’s Council of Economists, and the Institute of International Finance’s Economic Advisory Council. He frequently speaks at industry and academic conferences, events, and symposiums on such topics as macroeconomic trends, inflation, emerging markets, and evolving financial markets.​

Ardavan Mobasheri, MS