Afsaneh M. Beschloss

Afsaneh M. Beschloss President & CEO, The Rock Creek Group.

"Afsaneh M. Beschloss serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Rock Creek Group, an investment company formerly called the Carlyle Asset Management Group. From 1996 until 2001 when she founded The Rock Creek Group, Ms. Beschloss held a number of positions at the World Bank, serving as Director of Investments and Chief Investment Officer of the World Bank and later as Treasurer. Prior to these positions, she served as Senior Manager for the Energy Sector Management Program at the World Bank and Investment Officer of the World Bank's Investment Management Department.

"Ms. Beschloss also worked at J.P. Morgan, an investment bank, at Shell International, an oil and gas company, and also taught international trade at Oxford University. Ms. Beschloss holds an M.Phil (Honors) in economics from Oxford University. She is also a member of the board of directors of Temple-Inland, Inc., a corrugated packaging, forest products and financial products company. Ms. Beschloss is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation, and is Chairman of its Investment Committee, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a private historical foundation, a member of the Sesame Workshop, a non-profit educational organization, and a member of the Investment Committee at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private philanthropic fund.“