James Rickards

James Rickards is the Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a financial newsletter, and is the New York Times bestselling author of Aftermath (2019), The Road to Ruin (2016), The New Case for Gold (2016), The Death of Money (2014), and Currency Wars (2011) from Penguin Random House. Mr. Rickards is one of the world’s leading authorities on the role of gold as a monetary asset and has been an invited keynote speaker at gold conferences on six continents. His investment views on gold have been sought out by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, and Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, among other leading firms. As an investment advisor, lawyer, inventor, and economist he has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. His clients include institutional investors and government agencies. He is an op-ed contributor to the Financial Times, Evening Standard, The Telegraph, New York Times, and Washington Post, and a frequent interviewee in major financial media. He is also a guest lecturer in globalization and finance at The Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Trinity College Dublin, The Kellogg School at Northwestern, the U.S. Army War College, and the School of Advanced International Studies.

He is an advisor on capital markets to the U.S. intelligence community and the Office of the Secretary of Defense and is on the Advisory Board of the FDD Center on Economic and Financial Power in Washington DC. He holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the NYU School of Law; a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in international economics from SAIS, and a B.A. (with honors) from Johns Hopkins.