 ALG instructors are highly qualified and renowned international professors from Ivy League universities including Colombia Business School, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, George Washington, New York Stern Business School, University of Pennsylvania, and Boston College. Many of which and are seasoned financial professionals with consulting experience in leading financial institution including World Bank, IMF, Citibank, Solomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs etc, who bring academic rigor and real working knowledge to our learning solutions. They are committed to high quality knowledge which has been tried and tested, lessons that were learned at the heart of investment and business decision making in the corporate front.
FINANCE AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT
ALG's international trainers are internationally as experts in the field of financial theory and its application. The faculty will share with you their real-life experiences and insights to better prepare you for your future career as a financial expert.
Professor Dan Levin
 Ph.D in Business and Applied Economics, Wharton Business School
Dr. Levin had his Ph.D in Business and Applied Economics at The Wharton School, and was on the faculty of Wharton School, Tel Aviv University and The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Currently he is at the international MBA program at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business, and at Baruch College EMSF - CUNY program at Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Dr. Levin is an expert on the use and assessment of advanced technologies in various business and military applications. He was a board member in numerous companies and currently he is on the board of Polar Investments.
Professor Christopher Hessel
 Ph.D in Finance, NYU Stern Business School
Professor Hessel is a full time member of the Zicklin School of Business teaching a full spectrum of courses ranging from undergraduate introduction to finance courses to Graduate advanced electives in risk management. He is also a member of the faculty for the executive masters in finance program. Professor graduated NYU Stern school with a PhD in Finance. Over his career he has published many scholarly papers in financial journals. For the past 16 years Professor Hessel has be running in-house executive training programs for banks and corporations and has hosted conferences in 21 countries for companies like Euromoney Financial Training, and Linton Capital Markets.
Professor Roger Mesznik
 Ph.D. and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
Roger Mesznik has more than twenty five year experience lecturing, teaching, and consulting on Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Markets and Instruments, Financial Strategy and Planning, International Business, Managerial Accounting, and in training senior executives and MBA students.
Mr. Mesznik has taught at the Graduate Business School of Columbia University since 1982. Mr. Mesznik has taught or is teaching at the Stern School of Business at New York University; at INSEAD in France (Fontainebleau); at Baruch College (The Zicklin School) of CUNY; at L'Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, (taught intermittently in French), at Kuwait University in Kuwait; at the Catholic University in Lisbon, and at the Donau-Universität in Austria (taught intermittently in German). Mr. Mesznik has also lectured in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, in Taiwan, and at the Technische Universität in Vienna, and in the joint Columbia-Berkeley executive MBA program.
Mr. Mesznik is a frequent lecturer and consultant to corporations and multi-national and international institutions on finance, financial management, and economic analyses. His clients have included PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), UBS, Bankers Trust, The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council, IBM, American Express, Die Bank der Österreichischen Postsparkasse, and the World Bank.
Professor Kenneth Mischel
 Ph.D in Finance from Columbia University.
Kenneth Mischel is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York. He got his PHD in Finance from Columbia University. His research interests include security pricing, risk management and the history of ideas about chance and its management. He has published numerous essays and book reviews in a wide variety of scholarly journals. His speciality includes advanced financial management with emphasis on behavioral finance.
Professor Foued Ayari
 PhD in Financial Economics City University of New York
MS from the University of Paris XIII
Dr Foued Ayari received his PhD in Financial Economics from the City University of New York and his MS from the University of Paris XIII (France). His teaching and research interests are Credit Derivatives and International Finance. Professor Ayari is now teaching for Baruch College and Pace University and has worked for the Financial Research Unit of the New York State Banking Department on credit derivatives, financial stability and Basel II.
Professor Turan Bali
 Ph.D. in Financial Economics City University of New York
Professor Bali received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics in 1998 from the City University of New York. His research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, financial risk management and derivatives. Professor Bali's research has been presented at a number of international conferences and has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Fixed Income, Economics Letters, Risk, and others. At Baruch College, Professor Bali has taught undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses in options, investments, international finance, and financial econometrics.
Professor Armen Hovakimian
 Ph.D. in Finance, Boston College
Professor Hovakimian received his Ph.D. in Finance in 1998 from Boston College. His research interests are in the areas of corporate finance and financial institutions. His recent research has focused on empirical tests of corporate capital structure theories and the effects of deposit insurance on commercial banks' risk taking behavior. Professor Hovakimian's research has been presented at a number of international conferences and has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Business, and others. At Baruch College, Professor Hovakimian has taught undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses in financial management and corporate finance.
Professor Viktoria Dalko
 Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Dalko received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Besides teaching at the EMSF program, she is also an instructor at Harvard University. Before coming to Baruch, she was teaching in the Department of World Business of Thunderbird after teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 4 years. In Europe, she worked at the University of Munich in Germany and Budapest University of Economic Sciences in Hungary.
She served as Chief of Staff of the Committee of Budget, Taxes and Finances of the Hungarian Parliament and advisor to the President of the National Bank of Hungary before her academic career. Her research interests include preventing financial crises, health improvement and economic development, trust building for corporations among others.
Professor John Schofield
 Tempus Investment Research - Founder and principal Director: Independent consultancy providing technical research on the major Asian equity markets to a range of buy side and sell side clients. HK SFC registered (RA4) since April 2003.
Prudential-Bache Securities - Regional Technical Strategist (1996-2002): One of Asia's leading technical analysts writing series of publications under the "Asia Chartline" banner. Member of investment committee selecting recommended list stocks.
Schroder Securities Asia - Regional Technical Analyst (1994-1996): Moved to Hong Kong to take up position as technical analyst for the Asian region. Strategist for the Hong Kong market, also supervising development of earnings database.
Samuel Montagu & Co - Director, Emerging Markets Debt Arbitrage (1991-1993): Director of emerging markets debt trading in London. Responsible for structuring arbitrage and value-added transactions revolving around debt exchanges and equity swaps in Latin America.
Lloyds Bank Group - Director, Debt Swap Unit (1979-1991):12-year career with the Group in including positions as Representative in Japan for Lloyds Merchant Bank and Senior Manager in the Group's Strategic Planning Unit.
Professor Joseph Yagil
 Ph.D in Finance from the University of Toronto, Canada
Professor Joseph Yagil received his Ph.D in Finance from the University of Toronto, Canada. His teaching and research interests include financial management, investment analysis, derivative products and behavioral finance. He published more than fourty journal articles, and was a visiting professor of finance at several universities including Columbia, NYU and Rutgers. He also provides consulting for business firms and organizations.
LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT
In response to the enormous interest in leadership skills and talent management training, ALG have invited al list of internationally renowned professors and expertise from around the world
Associate Professor Govindan Nair
 Lead economist at the World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Advanced degrees in economics and public policy Princeton University(USA) and Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, France.
Professor Nair, lead economist at the World Bank, Washington DC, USA, has over eighteen years assisting corporate and government decision-makers design and implement policies and organizational development strategies to improve business performance, focusing on telecommunications, financial services and capacity building. As team leader in over twenty international assignments, he has helped prepare and implement projects, coached and advised senior government and business executives, and presented to international conferences on business competitiveness and strategic change, and investment opportunities in emerging markets. His experience has spanned the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia/Pacific regions as well as Africa
Mr. Nair has managed multi-disciplinary and multi-national teams with financial, legal, engineering, and other technical expertise, and provided advisory services to banks, telecommunications operators, private business associations, central government agencies and local government administrations, and non-profit associations.
He has been a member of the core team for two issues of The World Development Report, the premier research publication of the World Bank. He has also contributed op-ed articles to publications including The Japan Times and The Oregonian and published on issues of economics and business strategy, including in the United States and France.
His teaching experience includes being an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University (Washington DC, USA) where he led a Managerial Economics course within a masters degree program; an adjunct faculty for the International Law Institute in Washington DC where he led over twenty mid-career professional workshops for senior officials from over 25 countries, and team leader and presenter to policy and decision maker workshops worldwide on corporate strategy, privatization, telecommunications reform, and capacity building.
Associate Professor Marcella Simon
 MBA, concentration in International Marketing, from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Arizona, USA
Master of Education in Instructional Design and Technology from George Mason University in Virginia.
Marcella is currently a lecturer in Marketing and Leadership at Murdoch University in Perth. Western Australia. She has been a lecturer and presenter in International and Cross Cultural Management, Global Leadership, Customer Service, International Marketing, and other courses at George Washington University, American University, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Maryland.
Marcella's former clients include the World Bank, Bank of America, MCI, Andersen Consulting, Berlitz, APCO Worldwide, State Farm Insurance, United States Agency for International Development, as well as US Federal, State, and local government agencies and non-profit associations. As senior administrator at several US business schools, Marcella has overseen career advisory and placement services as well as business partnerships, many of them serving heavily international MBA student populations.Marcella holds an MBA, concentration in International Marketing, from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Arizona, USA, ranked as a leading international business program by US News and World Report and Business Week. She also holds a Master of Education in Instructional Design and Technology from George Mason University in Virginia. Marcella has a diverse cultural background, having been raised in the United States and Latin America. She has worked in Greece, Costa Rica, Panama, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia.
Professor Gary Martin
 Deputy Vice Chancellor, Murdoch University, Australia.
Prior to taking on this role; Prof Gary Martin was the Executive Dean for the Division of Arts and the Director of Policy & Administration. Professor Gary Martin is a member of both Australia Institute for Training & Development (AITD) and the Australia College of Education (ACE) and has trained hundreds of professionals from both government and private sectors throughout the Asia Pacific Region. His expertise is in the field of adult learning, executive coaching and mentoring.
Professor Gary Martin participative and entertaining training style has won him rave reviews from his participants. As a much demanded consultant and human resource developer, Professor Gary Martin has extensive experience in developing, delivering and evaluation of professional development and training. His list of clientale includes Department of Conservation and Management, Department of Treasury and Finance, MINDEF, Department of Public Services Training, Airlines and Department of the Premier and Cabinet Department of Education and Training
Professor Michael Carew
 Ph. D in U.S. Economic History, and his M.B.A in economics form New York University
Professor Michael Carew received his Ph. D in U.S. Economic History, and his M.B.A in economics form New York University. His teaching and research interests are in the evolution of economic theory and the formulation of economic and financial policies with a focus on Political Economy. Prior to his academic work he was a senior corporate executive and Chief Financial Officer in New York investment and commercial banking, including insurance, real estate and government finance. He has published articles on historical finance, and his first book will be published this fall.
Professor Foo Check Teck
 Professor & Honorary Chair of Competitive Strategy, School of Management, University of St Andrews
Professor Foo Check Teck is uniquely multi-talented and multi-disciplined visionary, (Name: Man of Renaissance by Straits Times). His diversity is reflected in qualifications, working experience and his extensive yet multi-faceted research interest. Coupled with his years of industry experience in MNCs, Professor Foo has developed the unique ability to translate on over 2,500 years old "Art of War" stratagems into business strategies to unlock the potential in all business leaders.
The author of several award winning books on Sun Tzu Stratagems, Prof Foo have trained over thousands of professionals from both government and private industries throughout the Asia Pacific Region. As a much demanded leadership & strategy trainer, his unique and entertaining style of delivery has won him numerous rave reviews.
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