BRIAN DAVID BUTLER

Brian Butler is a specialist in international economic analysis.

As an international economic analyst, Brian founded “GloboTrends“, an online site for macro-economic trend analysis, with a focus on providing this analysis to global investors. The highly popular “GloboTrends blog” is prominently displayed on Thunderbird’s MBA website and on Nouriel Roubini’s RGE Monitor.

In June 2008, Brian graduated with a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Thunderbird School of Global Management , where he graduated top of his class, Valedictorian, with a 3.977 GPA (out of 4.0).

Upon graduation in 2008, Brian was offered a position with Thunderbird, and was involved in facilitating classes in global economics, finance and trade to MBA students in Miami. This was a distance-learning class taught by Prof. Robert Grosse, of Standard Bank in South Africa.

Brian has over 10 years experience in international business, and is the author of an online guide to doing business in Brazil.

During the MBA, Brian worked as a consultant at NextLogics, a boutique investment and consulting firm focused on early stage endeavors with social impact. While working with NextLogics, he worked with “Global Social Capital”: a peer-to-peer micro lending / micro finance platform for Latin America. Brian also developed business plans for a WiFi mesh network for Brazil which involved WiFi infrastructure investment project for the NE of Brazil.

In New York, Brian previously was a financial analyst with the “Columbia Institute of Tele-Information” (of the Columbia Business School), focusing on new technologies and innovative business models. His research was packaged, and presented to Wall Street firms and industry analysts.