Nissim Ezekiel

Nissim Ezekiel has been a member of the CMTC Advisory Board since 2003 and has over thirty-five years of experience in economic development, investment promotion and international public affairs. He spent twenty-five years at the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group-Washington D.C.) from 1975 to 2000, served as Director of the Corporation’s newly created Corporate Planning Department from 1992 onwards and was a member of the Corporation’s Investment & Portfolio Committees during this period.

Ezekiel has since been Executive Director of the UN Commission on the Private Sector & Development in 2003, a member of the EastWest Institute’s core team (in 2005) on the Gaza Project (an initiative to promote support for Israel’s withdrawal from as well as to catalyze economic development in Gaza) and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Dalberg Development (in 2005-06). During this time he was also Executive Director of the Dalberg Task Force on Capacity for Program Delivery – constituted under the framework of the Clinton Global Initiative. Since 2009, Ezekiel has been a Member of the Advisory Board of Fundamental Value Partners, an investment fund based in Hong Kong, and in July 2012 joined the Board of Directors of the Seattle-based National Science Communication Institute (nSCI).

From September 2009 Ezekiel has been a regular contributor to Commodity Vision (and its online successor Financial Vision), a bi-monthly journal published from Mumbai, India – in which his column has analyzed contemporary political and economic issues in the United States. Ezekiel’s consulting clients includes Darby Overseas Investments Ltd. (a part of Franklin Templeton Investments) whom he has advised on issues relating to private investment in infrastructure in emerging markets. Ezekiel is also currently active with Israeli companies and start-ups and their efforts to raise capital for new technologies, to find new markets and establish productive partnerships in India and in the U.S.