Karim Pakravan returned to a full-time academic career as an Associate Professor of Finance (Visiting) at DePaul University after a 25-year career as a senior strategist in global financial markets, Pakravan’s last banking position was Senior Foreign Exchange Strategist at JPMorgan. Prior to that, he managed the Country Risk management function at Bank One and its predecessor banks. Pakravan is a recognized specialist in leading-edge applied macroeconomic and financial research on currencies and emerging markets, country risk assessment and modeling in an enterprise-wide risk management context, as well as international financial architecture. A University of Chicago graduate (Ph.D, Economics) with a wide range of experience and interests in many aspects of both finance and economics. Pakravan’s outside activities include membership in the Investment Committee of Advocacy Investing, a Chicago-based socially responsible investment fund, which he advises on macroeconomic and financial issues, as well as Board Member of the Social Entrepreneurship Association Association-Illinois Chapter, and membership in the International Subcommittee of the Association of Merger & Acquisitions Advisors.