Committee on Global Thought Advisory Council

Romita Shetty currently works as the Managaing Director of Dimaio Ahmad Capital LLC. She has 27 years of experience in fixed income and credit. She focuses on special situations, structured credit and private investments and sits on the firm’s CLO investment committee. Shetty has also served in a management capacity as President of DA Capital Asia Pte Ltd. In 2007-2008 Shetty ran the Global Special Opportunities group at Lehman Brothers which invested proprietary capital across the capital structure. Prior to that she co-ran North American structured equity and credit markets and the Global Alternative Investment product businesses at RBS from 2004 – 2006. Previously she worked at JP Morgan from 1997 – 2004 where she ran their Global Structured Credit Derivatives as well as Financial Institutions Solutions and CDO businesses. Shetty started her career at Standard & Poor’s in 1990 where she worked on a wide variety of credit ratings including municipal bonds, financial institutions and asset-backed securities and managed a large part of their ABS ratings business.

Rajesh Swaminathan is General Counsel and Partner of Jasper Ridge Partners, a $39B AUM global investment firm, where he oversees the legal, compliance, tax and human resources functions.

Prior to joining Jasper Ridge Partners in 2017, Rajesh served as Senior Managing Director and General Counsel at PineBridge Investments, PineBridge Investments’ regional general counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and assistant general counsel in the alternative investments business of PineBridge’s predecessor organization, AIG Investments. Before joining AIG, he was in private practice in the New York and Washington, DC offices of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP; Steptoe & Johnson LLP; and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

Rajesh is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the Advisory Councils of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and as a Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center. In addition, he is a Member of the Bretton Woods Committee and the National Leadership Council of the American India Foundation. He also serves as a Trustee of the Greenhill School.

Prakash Mehta advises some of the world’s most prominent fund sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and other institutional investors. He provides strategic advice on private equity-style investments, exit transactions, joint ventures, and stock and asset sales. He also counsels on investor portfolio company matters and serves as corporate counsel to public and private portfolio companies. Representative work includes advising on economically transformative private equity, venture capital and infrastructure fund manager-level transactions, including seed arrangements, joint ventures and minority stake sales; counseling funds on restructuring shale-play investments impacted by volatility in the energy sector; providing advice on debt and equity investments in shipping and entertainment assets around the world; assisting Asian clients on U.S. inbound investments in a variety of sectors; and representing limited partner advisory boards with respect to zombie fund manager disputes, with extensive work on funds divorce matters involving fund principals and investors. He is co-leader of the firm’s investment management practice, leader of the India practice and member of the management committee.

Paul Woolmington is a ‘Renaissance’ entrepreneur of the media, advertising, digital, marketing and communications industry. He has held leadership positions at the highest levels both globally and domestically in management, media, integrated business, brand, digital and communications strategy at holding companies including IPG, Y&R Inc, WPP and MDC Partners. He co-founded Naked Communications Americas, founded The Media Kitchen, and was named one of the ten most creative/innovative people in marketing and advertising by Fast Company. Woolmington is currently the CEO of Canvas Worldwide – a creatively driven media and communications agency named Adweek’s 2020 Breakthrough Agency of the Year – that aims to reinvent its marketplace at scale. Under Woolmington’s leadership, Canvas has grown to become the world’s second-largest independent media agency.

Matthew Doering is the CEO and Founder of Global Gateway Advisors, a strategic communications consultancy based in New York. He is a senior corporate and global public affairs counselor with extensive expertise in reputation management, stakeholder, and influencer engagement. For more than 25 years, Doering has advised Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations on market positioning, thought leadership, issues and crisis management, global public affairs, litigation support, and DEI and ESG initiatives. He has counseled organizations across industries and in every region of the world, and developed dynamic programs that reach, engage and activate diverse audiences.

Doering founded Global Gateway Advisors in 2010 to address a growing need for strategic communications counsel and broad integrated program development among companies, nonprofits, organizations and governments. Today, the firm operates at the intersection of business, policy and social arenas to help organizations that are disrupting their industry or sector develop responsive, informed strategies to communicate through times of crisis, transition and transformation.

Doering and his team support a range of clients in the corporate and public affairs, technology, health, finance and social impact sectors, including the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit, Downtown Music Holdings, Glassdoor and its parent company Recruit Holdings, GuideWell/Florida Blue, the Institute of International Education and Zillow Group. The firm has won widespread recognition for its track record for managing complex, multi-faceted projects, including as a finalist for PRovoke’s 2021 Corporate/Financial PR Agencies of the Year for North America and the Silver Anvil winner for its work for the International Literacy Association.

Prior to founding the firm, Doering was a Senior Vice President and Senior Partner at FleishmanHillard, where he led the New York Corporate Affairs Team. In this role, he advised a host of clients, including Abbott, Amgen, Dunkin’ Brands, Hyatt Hotels, Merck Research Labs, Subway Restaurants and United Airlines. He notably led international media support for the Brazilian government for SECOM. Before joining FleishmanHillard, Mr. Doering served in communications roles at Gavin Anderson & Co. and McDonough & Associates.

Doering is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society, a professional organization for senior public relations and corporate communications executives and educators. He conceived, chaired and organized the Fulbright Public Relations Council for the Institute of International Education, an advisory team of 15 cross sector reputation and marketing experts. He has served on the Board of Trustees for Art Omi, a not-for-profit arts center in the Hudson Valley with a 120-acre sculpture and architecture park and gallery, and residency programs in visual art, writing, music, dance and architecture.

A Seattle-native, Mr Doering double-majored in communications and political science at the University of Washington. He and his husband, Daniel Obst, split their time between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Ghent, New York.

Karol is an Austrian-born American entrepreneur and media industry innovator with broad motion picture, publishing, broadcast, event and Internet backgrounds. He has produced over three dozen award-winning films and his career spans multiple decades including pioneering leadership in the American independent film sector. Karol is CEO of Abramorama, Innovation & Strategy Officer of the non-profit Theorem Media, and Founder of strategic advisory Thought Engine. Karol was the President of Film for Michael Cohl’s S2BN Entertainment, EVP of Film & Animation at Babel Networks, President/Publisher of Silicon Alley Reporter, and Head of Film at Chris Blackwell’s Palm Pictures. While at Palm, he led operations and brand positioning for the RES Media Group unit, including its digital film festival RESFEST, the world’s original digital arts and entertainment festival, which in its 10th year (’06) was a global touring event spanning 6 continents, 19 countries and 40 cities worldwide.

Karol has produced over 25 television and satellite broadcast music programs, multiple Webby Award-winning projects including wetheeconomy.com and focusforwardfilms.com and he co-founded Filmmaker Magazine, RES Magazine and several media content enterprises, including conditionone, and IndieWire.com. Current and former boards include Columbia University’s Global Thought (CGT) and Digital Storytelling Lab (DSL), The Wall Street Theater, Rightster, Bella Gaia, The Film Collaborative, Rising Tide Studios, and the Hamptons International Film Festival, LA Independent Film Festival, Vermont Film & Folklore Festival, and Kitzbuehel Film Festival.

Karol has lived in over 20 cities internationally and received a B.A. from SUNY Purchase and an M.F.A. from Columbia University with a concentration in entertainment law, theater management and film production. 

Mr. Gonzalo Garcia-Kenny is Head of Client Risk Solutions Desk at Citigroup Global Markets. He is responsible for structuring trading programs and other offerings to institutional clients.  Prior to his current role, from 2004 to 2014, Gonzalo traded North America and European corporate bonds, derivatives, indices, and Quanto Risk at Citi.

Gonzalo has 30 years of experience in the financial industry ranging from cashier, audit, market risk, trading and structuring.  He joined Citi’s branch in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1993. Gonzalo is Citigroup’s main representative at various industry forums and board of directors of firms where Citi has participation.Managing Director – Head of Client Risk Solutions – Citi. 

Elizabeth S. Stong has served as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2003. Previously, she was a litigation partner and associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and a law clerk to Hon. David Mazzone, U.S. District Judge in the District of Massachusetts.

Judge Stong is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and also serves as a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, the Board of Trustees of the Practising Law Institute, the Board of Directors of the International Insolvency Institute, and the Board of Directors of P.R.I.M.E Finance. She is also the Co-Chair of the New York City Bar’s Council on the Profession, and Co-Chair of the New York Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. Judge Stong represents the American Bar Association Judicial Division’s National Conference of Federal Trial Judges in the ABA’s House of Delegates, and also serves on the ABA’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and the Council of the ABA Business Law Section. In October 2016, she will serve as Honorary Chair of Mediation Settlement Day, a nationwide event that she helped to establish in 2001.

David K. Park is Member of the Committee on Global Thought and Faculty Director for the Master’s in Global Thought. Dr. Park is also The Honorary Distinguished Professor of Solbridge International School of Business and Honorary Dean of the Future College at Woosong University and supports Woosong Education Foundation as a Global Advisor. Dr. Park co-chairs the Council of Advisors for the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy. Dr. Park is a member of the Data Science Institute, Fellow at the Center for the Management of Systemic Risk and founding member of the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia University. Dr. Park was formerly Dean of Strategic Initiatives for the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and co-founded several New York-based technology companies in the areas of natural language processing and machine learning.

Dr. Park is currently exploring the historical arc of universities, limitations and possibilities of “big data”, how failure and vulnerability are the foundations of innovation and creativity across organizations, as well as the electoral origins of congressional polarization. Dr. Park is also working on several manuscripts including, The Twentieth Century Sectional Reversal: How did the Republican States Switch to the Democrats and Vice Versa? and Is History Repeating Itself? Comparing 1875 to 1928 and 1971 to 2008.

Dr. Park received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia where he focused on historical comparative institutional analyses of societal change. He was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Applied Statistics at Washington University, Assistant Professor at George Washington University, Visiting Professor at Columbia University and Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He has written numerous articles and co-authored Red State Blue State Rich State Poor State: Why American Vote the Way They Do (Princeton University Press, 2008).

David Bartsch is the founder of Quaternion Risk Management Inc, a fintech risk software startup recently acquired by AcadiaSoft, Inc., the leading industry provider of risk management services for the global derivatives industry controlled by the world’s largest dealer banks and exchanges. David continues to advise financial institution management and Boards of Directors on capital markets risk management and regulatory compliance as a senior partner in the new AcadiaSoft Quantitative Services Division. David has held senior leadership positions at Genworth Financial and GE Asset Management where he managed global bank fixed income investments. Earlier in his career he served as Managing Director at GE Capital Market Services and Senior Vice President in Financial Institutions Banking at Irving Trust Company and The Bank of New York where he ran Capital Markets and Corporate Finance. He holds a BA degree in Political Economy from Williams College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, David is also active with the Center on Japan Economy and Business of Columbia Business School. David received the Phillippe Award from General Electric Company, its highest award for distinguished community service in recognition of his leadership and support for international secondary education as Chair of the US Committee for United World College Schools (UWC).

Carolyn Campbell is an experienced executive and board director with over 25 years of investing in tech-enabled energy, financial services and consumer/logistics businesses. Ms. Campbell is a founder and managing partner of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), a private equity firm which has raised nearly $3.5 billion in growth capital for investment in over 70 listed and private high-growth companies. She is a recognized expert in corporate governance, SEC/NYSE and global capital markets, M&A, corporate finance/audit, and enterprise risk/ESG.

She is fluent in French and is a board director of her group’s France-based energy platform. She serves on the Advisory Board of health-care tech investment platform MEDA Investments, investing in medical devices, digital health and SaaS.

As a member of ECP’s Audit/Valuation, Investment and Executive Committees, she serves on the boards of the firm’s fintech, consumer and energy investments, from early- to late-stage traditional and fintech assets, assisting in expansion and IPO planning and supply chain and regulatory analysis. As chair of the firm’s advisory committees and a director of multiple boards, she is valued for oversight and strategy in relation to finance/audit, corporate governance, risk management and ESG, improving financial reporting, corporate governance, business plans and IT systems. Ms. Campbell is particularly adept at helping companies in highly-regulated industries and those looking to expand into new markets.

Prior to founding ECP, Ms. Campbell worked in global private equity at Emerging Markets Partnership (EMP), where she provided overall leadership and strategy for funds in Asia and Eastern Europe. Prior to that, Ms. Campbell worked in M&A and corporate finance globally at White & Case LLP, where she advised on U.S. venture capital deals and guided expanding multinational corporations to find suitable investments, build strong local partnerships and achieve best governance practices.
Ms. Campbell has received various awards including the PEA Women Impact Award and life membership in the Council on Foreign Relations. A sought-after speaker on board governance, investment strategy and executive management, she has appeared on C-SPAN, Bloomberg and Africa Today, spoken at the National Economists Club, the Brookings Institute, and the Harvard and Wharton Business Schools. She has published on cryptocurrency and other topics in the Financial Times, Environmental Finance, Quartz and Private Equity International.

Antonia Menezes grew up in Zimbabwe, and is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist in the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank Group in Washington D.C.

The focus of her work is advising governments on policy reform in the field of corporate restructuring and insolvency, including legal aspects of non-performing loan management.  Her work is particularly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia.

Antonia has published widely in the field of insolvency and represents the World Bank Group at Working Group V (Insolvency) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).  She is also a Co-Chair of the World Bank Group Insolvency & Creditor/Debtor Regimes (ICR) Task Force, which is responsible for developing global best practice standards in the insolvency field.  She is one of the founders of the World Bank-INSOL International Judicial Insolvency Program, which aims to strengthen judicial knowledge and technical expertise.

Antonia is on the INSOL International Academics Steering Committee, a Member of the International Insolvency Institute, and a 2014 INSOL International Fellow.  She was named as one of the top 500 leading global restructuring and insolvency lawyers by Lawdragon 2020.  Prior to joining the World Bank Group, she was in private practice at leading international law firms in France and the United Kingdom.  

Alex Wallace is currently an advisor, speaker, and board member. She is an Executive in Residence at Progress Partners, an investment bank, and at IESE, the top business school in Spain.

She ran the media operations at Yahoo!, the third largest digital media property in the US, and across 13 markets globally, where she lead revenue, audience growth and conversion for Yahoo News, Sports, Entertainment, Finance and Life as well as TechCrunch, Autoblog, Engadget, In the Know, MAKERS, Tumblr and Huffpost. Previously she was Senior Vice President of NBC News and Executive in Charge of Today and Meet the Press and the Executive Producer of Nightly News. She has consulted for a range of companies including Redbird IMI, Google, Hint and The Wall Street Journal.

She is a Council on Foreign Relations member and was a Media Leader at The World Economic Forum for many years. Alex is currently Co-chair of the Educational Outreach and Civic Engagement Committee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, is Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of Retro Report, and is on the Advisory Council for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She has been honored with 11 Emmy Awards, 2 Dupont Awards, a Gracie Award and a Peabody Award, and a John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement from the Columbia College Alumni Association, for which she is a member of the Board of Directors.

Adrian Monck is a British journalist, writer, and business executive. He served as Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board at the World Economic Forum from 2009 to 2023, where he led the organization's public engagement, helping build it into a global storytelling platform. Prior to joining the Forum, he headed the Department of Journalism at City University London from 2005 to 2009. Earlier in his career, Monck worked as a television journalist with CBS News, ITV News, Channel 5, and Sky News, covering major international stories including the Bosnian War and the Dunblane massacre.  His reporting received awards from Britain's Royal Television Society and the New York Festivals.  He is the co-author of two books, Crunch Time: How Everyday Life is Killing the Future and Can You Trust the Media? He holds an honors degree in Modern History from Exeter College, Oxford and an MBA from London Business School.