ABOUT JIM RICKARDS

Global commentator on finance, risk and geo-politics, and bestselling author

James Rickards is the Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a financial
newsletter. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Sold Out
(2022), The New Great Depression (2021), Aftermath (2019), The Road to
Ruin (2016), The New Case for Gold (2016), The Death of Money (2014),
and Currency Wars (2011) from Penguin Random House.

He is an investment advisor, lawyer, inventor, and economist, and has
held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and
Caxton Associates. In 1998, he was the principal negotiator of the rescue
of LTCM sponsored by the Federal Reserve. His clients include
institutional investors and government directorates. He is an op-ed
contributor to the Financial Times, Evening Standard, The Telegraph, New
York Times, and Washington Post.

Mr. Rickards is a guest lecturer in globalization and finance at The Johns
Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Trinity College Dublin, the
U.S. Army War College, the National Defense University, and the School
of Advanced International Studies. He has presented papers on risk at the
Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and
is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He is an advisor on capital markets to the U.S. intelligence community,
and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is a board member of the
Florida Institute for National Security.

Mr. Rickards holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the NYU School of Law; a
J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in
international economics from SAIS, and a B.A. (with honors) from Johns
Hopkins. He lives in New Hampshire.