(WASHINGTON – October 16, 2020) – Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss has been appointed to Georgetown University’s Board of Directors. Afsaneh will serve a three-year term, beginning at Georgetown’s fall board meeting – held virtually this past week on October 7-8th.
“We are very pleased to welcome Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss to the Georgetown University board,” said Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia. “Afsaneh’s leadership, vision and experience will strengthen and shape the future of the University.”
Ms. Beschloss is founder and CEO of RockCreek. Previously, she was Managing Director and Partner at the Carlyle Group. She was Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of the World Bank and worked at Shell International and J.P. Morgan.
Ms. Beschloss has advised governments, central banks, and regulatory agencies on global public policy and financial policy as well as energy policy. She led the World Bank’s energy investments and policy work including on sustainable investing renewable energy, power, and infrastructure projects to reduce carbon emissions. Ms. Beschloss is on the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Council on Foreign Relations, Gavi the Vaccine Alliance and the World Resources Institute.
She was honored by the Carnegie Corporation and included in it’s 2020 list for the Great Immigrants Initiative, is a recipient of the Institutional Investor Lifetime Achievement Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award. She was recognized as one of American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking and one of Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance.
Ms. Beschloss holds an MPhil (Honors) in Economics from the University of Oxford, where she taught international trade and economic development. She is the co-author of The Economics of Natural Gas and author of numerous journal articles on energy, finance, renewable energy and impact investing.
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