G. Chris Andersen
Founder and Partner, G.C. Andersen Partners LLC
G. Chris Andersen is the Founding Partner of G.C. Andersen Partners, a boutique merchant and investment bank and private equity firm based in New York. Before founding the bank in 1996, Andersen served as vice chairman of Paine Webber, posting record corporate finance revenues and launching its international banking operations. He was previously the head of the investment banking group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Andersen is a vice chair of the Milken Institute's SAVE climate change initiative. For several years, he wrote a weekly column for Inc. magazine. Andersen is lead director of Terex Corporation, the third-largest heavy-equipment company in the world, and chairman and director of Millennium Cell. He is a member of the International Advisory Council of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing, and an honorary professor at Yanbian University of Science & Technology in Yanji, China, and Pyongyang, North Korea. A certified financial analyst, he received a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.