Institute for Latin American Business Studies at Babson College
John C. Edmunds
He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Harvard University, is a professor of finance at Babson College in Boston, and is the author of the new book *Challenging the Slope: 30 Years of Reforms in Latin America*
John C. Edmunds is a professor of finance and director of research at the Institute for Latin American Business Studies at Babson College. Professor Edmunds has been described as an advocate of the financial expansion that peaked in 2008 and then collapsed. His article “Securities: The New World Wealth Machine” appeared in Foreign Policy magazine in 1996 and has since been cited as the clearest statement justifying financial expansion. His books, including Brave New Wealthy World (Pearson Prentice Hall 2003), have been both praised and criticized for their defense of financial expansion.
Professor Edmunds has taught extensively in MBA programs abroad, including at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain; INCAE in Central America; the Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic; and two universities in Chile. He has also taught at other schools in the Boston area, including Boston University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard University, Hult International Business School, and Northeastern University. He is a member of the Golden Key Society and was named Professor of the Year at Hult International Business School. He has lived in six countries and spent eighteen years abroad. He is fluent in Spanish and also speaks French.
Dr. Edmunds’ areas of interest include international finance, capital markets, and emerging markets. He is the author of more than 250 articles and case studies published in both academic and professional journals. He has published eight books. More than a hundred of his articles deal with Latin American capital markets and have been published in Spanish, including “Tell Me Cuando” (América Economía, April 2009); “Financiar a Emprendedores” (Estrategia, January 20, 2006); “Ibero-America Needs Its Own Davos,” Expansión, Madrid, Spain, June 20, 2005; “The New Rich,” América Economía, December 2, 2004; “When Will the Emerging Stock Market Emerge?” in El Diario Financiero, October 2004; “The Stock Market Boom in Chile as a Driver of Growth” (Parts I and II), in El Diario Financiero, September 2004; “Sustaining the Incipient Boom,” in América Economía, July 2004; and “The Hidden Value of Latin America,” in América Economía, July 2001.
Dr. Edmunds holds a D.B.A. in International Business from Harvard Business School, an M.B.A. in Finance and Quantitative Methods with honors from Boston University, an M.A. in Economics from Northeastern University, and an A.B. in Economics cum laude from Harvard College. He has consulted with the Harvard Institute for International Development, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Stanford Research Institute, and numerous private companies.
He is the author of eight books:
Competing for Capital, with Rodrigo Sainz, RIL Editores, 2021, forthcoming.
People, Money, and Freedom, with Rodrigo Sainz, RIL Editores, 2020.
Rogue Money and the Underground Economy: An Encyclopedia of Alternative and Cryptocurrencies, ABC-CLIO, 2020.
Defying the Slope, RIL Editores, Chile, December 2012.
Executive Refresher: Finance, Aspatore Publishing, March 2004.
Brave New Wealthy World, Financial Times Pearson Prentice Hall, June 2003.
Wealth by Association, with John Marthinsen. Praeger Press, March 2003.
The Wealthy World: The Growth and Implications of Global Prosperity, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001. E-book version, June 2001.