JONATHAN
seen on the scene
Houston World Affairs Council ’ s Jonathan Berman
By Anita Long
Building Success in Africa
Jonathan Berman is an author , speaker and consultant . He is senior fellow at Columbia
University ’ s Vale Center and senior advisor to Dalberg , a strategic advisory firm focused on frontier markets with ten offices worldwide . He previously served as partner and director of Dalberg ’ s corporate practice . He has advised numerous global Fortune 500 companies on entry and operations in emerging and frontier markets , focusing on the political and economic dynamics that drive shareholder value . His clients include global leaders in oil , gas , mining , agribusiness , infrastructure , healthcare and consumer goods , as well as governments and investors active in these sectors . Challenges on which he has supported clients include : assessing political and social risk in new ventures ; developing strategy for entering emerging and frontier markets ; engaging host governments and civil society on national development challenges ; developing local supply chains ; preventing crises in frontier markets and navigating through them when they occur ; and advising boards and senior executive teams on sustained growth in emerging and frontier markets .
JONATHAN
BERMAN
Senior Fellow , Vale Center , Columbia University ; Senior Advisor , Dalberg
Berman is the author , most recently , of “ Success in Africa : CEO Insights from a Continent on the Rise ”, featuring the views of global and African CEOs on the unique dynamics of fast-growth markets . His views have appeared in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Financial Times , Bloomberg and Harvard Business Review , where he writes a regular blog . A member of the Council on Foreign Relations , he is graduate of Yale University and UC Berkeley .
14 iF Magazine | March 2017