About the Author

Jeffrey Towson is a specialist in global and cross-border investing. He has developed more than $15 billion in investments across multiple geographies (United States, China, the Middle East) and industries (real estate, hotels, banks/financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail, technology, petrochemicals, energy/infrastructure). He is currently Managing Partner of the Towson Group and is based in New York, Dubai, and Shanghai.

Previously, Mr. Towson served as Head of Direct Investments for Middle East North Africa and Asia Pacific for Prince Waleed, who could be considered the world’s first private global investor. Nicknamed the “Arabian Warren Buffett” by Time magazine, Waleed’s distinctions include being the world’s fourth-richest person (2004, Forbes); the largest foreign investor in the U.S.; the biggest shareholder of the world’s largest bank (Citigroup, 2007); and the world’s second-largest media owner, after Rupert Murdoch.

Mr. Towson is a frequent speaker and writer (visit www.jeffreytowson.com). He is a fellow at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School in the UK and is cohead of the Current Topics in Chinese Strategy and Investment course at Peking University Guanghua School of Management in Beijing. He holds an MBA from the Columbia Business School, an MD from the Stanford University School of Medicine, a BA in physics from Pomona College, and a Fulbright from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.