Liaquat Ahamed

Liaquat Ahamed is an investment manager and writer who headed the World Bank's investment division and later served as chief executive of Fischer Francis Trees & Watts, a fixed-income manager owned by BNP Paribas. Lords of Finance, his history of the central bankers of the 1920s and 1930s, won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. He has served as a trustee of the Brookings Institution.