Malan Rietveld Curriculum Vitae Nationality: Date of Birth: Current Address: Email: Tel: South Africa and The Netherlands 15 December 1981 50 W97th St, New York, NY, 10025 mr3364 [at] ccsi [dot] com +1 646 630 4123 (US) and +1 416 818 4566 (Canada) Employment History Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, Columbia University Economic and Policy Researcher April 2014 - current • • • Applied research center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University Focused on research, advisory and training work in areas of natural resource revenue management and infrastructure investment Development of partnerships with private sector, think thanks, universities and intergovernmental organizations Investec Asset M anagement Analyst, Emerging Market Debt and Economist, Investec Investment Institute February 2012 – January 2014 • • • Global multi-asset class fund management firm, with $105bn in assets under management. Analyst on regional bond and currency markets for $500mn African emerging debt fund Economist for Investec Investment Institute, a premier-client research unit within the firm, with responsibility for designing public-sector client training programmes Rietveld Consulting, Inc. Managing Director December 2009 – February 2012 • • • Own private research and strategic advisory firm Production of annual research report on African economic and monetary developments for Absa & Barclays Group Research and strategic consulting for private-sector firms (Absa), think tanks (Cenfri) and international organizations (Asian Development Bank) Official M onetary and Financial Institutions Forum Chief Economist and Head of Education July 2010 – October 2011 • • • International forum for public policy research, training and conferences, targeting global central banks, financial regulators and sovereign wealth funds Design and launch of organization’s International Academy of Central Banking Economist focused on emerging market central banks and sovereign wealth funds Central Banking Publications Various Positions (including Editor, Central Banking journal) August 2005 – September 2009 • • • • Specialist research, training and publishing firm for global economic policy institutions Editor of flagship journal and three edited books on sovereign wealth funds Design, marketing and operations of over 30 annual training courses for public sector policymakers from around the world Management of sponsored projects with PwC, BlackRock & Principal Global Investors Education Ph.D . in Economics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa January 2012 – December 2014 (submission target) Thesis title: “Sovereign Wealth Funds as an Institutional Solution to the Resource Curse” M .Sc in Economic H istory (cum laude), London School of Economics, United Kingdom Dissertation title: “Has the Management of Resource Revenues Improved Since the 1970s?” September 2005 – August 2007 M .Sc in Economics, University of Leuven, Belgium Dissertation title: “The Volatility of Emerging Market Capital Flows” August 2004 – July 2005 B.A. H onours in Economics (cum laude), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa February 2003 – March 2004 B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa February 2000 – December 2002 Consulting Experience Experience and project management includes publication editing and production, training planning and delivery, and strategic advisory work. Clients include: • • • • • • • • • • BlackRock Absa and Barclays Group Principal Global Investors Asian Development Bank Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion University of Stellenbosch Graduate School of Business PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) Investec Asset Management Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Books (editor) Rietveld, M. (2009). Sovereign Risk Management, Central Banking Publications: London. Rietveld, M. (2008). New Perspectives on Sovereign Asset Management , Central Banking Publications: London. Johnson-Calari, J. and Rietveld, M. Banking Publications: London. (2007). Sovereign Wealth Management , Central Book Chapters Rietveld, M. and Mendzela, J. (2009). “A survey of central bank management”, in Central Bank Management, J. Mendzela and N. Carver (eds.) Central Banking Publications: London. Rietveld, M. (2008). “Three things we have learned about sovereign investors”, in New Perspectives on Sovereign Asset Management, M. Rietveld (ed.), Central Banking Publications: London. Rietveld, M. and Pringle, R. (2007). “The Evolution of Sovereign Wealth Management”, in Sovereign Wealth Management, M. Rietveld and J. Johnson-Calari (eds.), Central Banking Publications: London. Rietveld, M. (2007). “Reserve Management – 2006 in Review” in RBS Reserve Management Trends, R. Pringle and N. Carver (eds.) Central Banking Publications: London. Articles and Papers (selected) Du Plessis, S. and Rietveld, M. (2014). “Should inflation targeting be abandoned in favour of nominal income targeting?,” Journal of Studies in Economics and Econometrics, forthcoming. Rietveld, M. (2013). “Becoming Boring: Lessons from Modern Monetary Policy for Sovereign Wealth Funds”, paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 25-27 September 2013. Rietveld, M. (2013). “Why poor countries should still consider conventional sovereign wealth funds,” Managing Foreign Exchange Reserves and Natural Resources Revenues in a Post-Crisis World, Economic Policy Press. Rietveld, M. (2012). “Sovereign wealth funds: a useful or inappropriate model for managing resource revenues in Africa?”, paper prepared for the Development Dialogue, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 4-5 October 2012. De Klerk, A., Eerdmans, P. and Rietveld, M. (2012). “Opportunities in African fixed income,” Emerging Market Debt White Paper Series, Investec Asset Management. Roux, A., Horne, R., Rietveld, M, and Shah, A. (2012). “Africa: new sources of growth,” Africa Insights Series, Investec Asset Management. Rietveld, M. (2011). “Building human capital in central bank reserves management: a more efficient allocation of roles,” Central Bank Reserves Management in Africa: Best Practices in Building Capacity, Economic Policy Press. Rietveld, M. (2007). “The emerging Bernanke Fed,” Central Banking, Vol. XVIII (2): November 2007. Rietveld, M. (2006). “The difficult choice of an inflation target”, Central Banking, Vol. XVI (4): May 2006.