Edward Goldberg

Edward Goldberg is one of the leading experts on global-political economics. Having spent his career moving between the worlds of academia, international trade and trade finance, Goldberg has a unique and pragmatic understanding of globalization and international-political economics.

He is a much-quoted essayist and public speaker on the subjects of Globalization, European-American relations, U.S.-Russian and China relations and global economic, trade / political issues. He has been cited by Thomas L. Friedman in several of his columns in The New York Times as well as in his book Hot Flat and Crowded. His piece, “To Paraphrase Mark Twain-Rumors of America’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated,” appeared in The New York Times.

He has also been cited in or has written for Roubini Global Economics, Yale Global on Line, Fiscal Times, The Hill, American Foreign Policy Interests, Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Deal, Yahoo Finance, The Week, Google News, Quartz and Voice of America. He is a regular contributor to the Hill, Huffington Post, the Globalist and Real Clear World and Real Clear Politics. His name appears on Tom Keene of Bloomberg Surveillance list of 193 people to watch/follow in academic & market economics, with a touch of international relations.

He is a frequent guest on Bloomberg Radio discussing global economic issues. He has also been interviewed on CBS News, Public Radio, CBS radio, the Associated Press Radio, CNBC and, Al-Jazeera America TV. He was also a featured guest on the PBS series The World on The Brink. Internationally, he has discussed the ramifications of various global economic trends on NDTV of India, TV 4 Group of Sweden as well as Russian State Television, and has been cited by the India Council of Globalization, Kyiv Post, Novelle Europe, Wales on Line, International Finance Magazine of London, Novoye Russkoye Slovo,and Russia Direct.

Goldberg represented the United States Department of State at the International Conference on International Relations and Problems of Globalization in St. Petersburg, Russia where he delivered the opening address. He was a member of President Barack Obama's Foreign Policy Network Team for the 2008 Presidential election and was a member of then-Senator John Kerry's Russia and CIS Policy Team during the 2004 United States presidential election. In addition he has testified at the United States Senate on matters relating to International Trade.

In addition to his teaching at New York University and Baruch, he gives an annual series of lectures at New York’s 92nd Street Y on various topics relating to globalization, the world economy and their effects on the United States. Other institutions and organizations where he has lectured include the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, The Kennan Institute Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., The European Union Study Center, University of Pisa, CEDEP/INSEAD, The Harriman Institute of Columbia University, The Weisman Center for International Business, The New School, and The Italian Diplomatic Academy.

What makes Goldberg’s world view particularly unique in assessing Global Economic trends and their effects on the United States is that, he spent the first 30 years of his career in international business, first as a partner in a leading global agricultural trading firm and than as president of a division of a large European Bank, specializing in international trade. The pragmatic insights he gained from this real world experience have given him a broad and realistic appreciation of how global economies actually work.

At Annisa Group (www.annisagroup.com) his consulting firm, Mr. Goldberg has worked on global issues with such major companies as Goldman Sachs, Rockefeller Brother’s Fund, Eaton Vance and Raiffeisen Zentralbank.

Previously he founded and served as President of F.J. Elsner North America Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) of Vienna, Austria, where he created a unique financing strategy that allowed the firm to become one of the leading companies exporting American Agricultural products to the at that time new Russian Federation. He also developed the marketing strategy and led the negotiations that resulted in the firm becoming the largest pre-trade financier and trader in North America for various steel and forest products from Russia and Eastern Europe.

In addition working closely with the United Nations and the U.S. State Department, Mr. Goldberg was responsible for overseeing the firm’s sale of commodities to Iraq under the United Nations Oil for Food Program.

At F.J. Elsner he also conceived and Co-Chaired the B2B, development committee of the Raiffeisen Zentralbank Group. The objective was to develop a B2B online trading business focused in Central and Eastern Europe which would redeploy the 100+ years of financial and trading experience of Raiffeisen Zentralbank onto the internet.

Goldberg began his business career with the Chilewich Group, one of the foremost American agricultural trading companies doing business with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asia. He started as a sales trainee and rose to become Vice President, International Marketing and Principal in several of the operating divisions, including having responsibility for Asia.