Juergen Braunstein

JURGEN BRAUNSTEIN is a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. He is a member

of the Sovereign Wealth Community of Practice, Collaboration for Development (C4D) platform at the World Bank Group. Prior to that Juergen coordinated the New Climate Economy Special Initiative on financing the urban transition under the leadership of Nick Stern and Felipe Calderon at the London School of Economics (LSE) Cities. Juergen led the engagement program between the LSE and the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds in London. His areas of expertise include financial instruments, emerging markets and state-owned enterprise reform and Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). He was a researcher at the Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance Globalisation in the Gulf States, where he worked on one of the first databases on SWF equity investments in OECD economies. His work on SWFs appeared in

the Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Journal of Economic Policy, The Financial Times and Forbes. He has a B.A. from the University of Vienna and a masters and doctorate from the London School of Economics.