STACIA HACHEM Stacia Hachem has been monitoring Markets for over 20 years.

She began her career as a Foreign Exchange Sales Trader at J. P. Morgan in New York and London. She later covered Emerging Markets for Euromoney and Institutional Investor from London and the Middle East. The highlight of this period was organizing the first ever investor conference in East Berlin which all the Soviet satellite countries' ministers participated. She returned to the U.S. to build a global emerging markets program for the Economist Intelligence Unit and oversee the Business China Group. During this time she worked closely with Central Bank Governors, Ministers of Finance and Economy, the CEO's of local companies and the Heads of International of Multinationals.

For the past ten years, she has been an independent research consultant advising clients on buy-side research as well as the optimization of buy-side research. Clients have included large US Hedge Funds such as Kingdon, SAC, Gabelli, Moore and others; Mutual Fund Investors such as Putnam, Fidelity, Amvescap, Legg-Mason and others; Research Firms such as Jupiter Communications and J.D. Power & Associates.

In addition to serving as an outsourced Research Director to clients she also sub-advises on Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

She has been a Returning Scholar in Economics at the University of Chicago. She received her Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University in International Finance & Middle East Studies (1987) and her BA cum laude in International Business from Mundelein College of Loyola University.