BRIAN DAVID BUTLER

Brian Butler has worked as professor of International Finance and European Studies with Forum-Nexus, an academic program which is co-sponsored by the IQS School of Management of the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona (which is fully accredited by AACSB), and by the Catholic University of Milan (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, member of the ISEP Network)

Brian previously worked as an analyst for the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information (of the Columbia University Business School). Brian earned an MBA with valedictorian distinction from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and he has lectured on Finance, Economics and Global Trade as course facilitator at Thunderbird’s Global MBA program in Miami.

Brian specializes in global macro economics, and was the founder of the prestigious “GloboTrends“ online economics site, which has been featured as syndicated content on Nouriel Roubini’s RGE Monitor, Emerginvest.com, Business Week Exchange, Wikinvest.com, and other leading news outlets. Other startups Brian has been involved in: Kookyplan (wiki for entrepreneurs), and Marcusso Designs (a furniture design and marketing firm). Before moving to New York, Brian worked for Honda of America in procurement and global supply chains.

A global citizen, Brian was born in Canada, raised in Switzerland (where he attended international schools), educated in the U.S., started his career with a Japanese company, moved to New York to work as an analyst, married a Brazilian, and has traveled extensively in Latin America, Asia, Europe and North America.

Brian currently lives in Recife, Brazil with his wife and daughter where he has taught classes at a local university, Faculdade Boa Viagem. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the American School in Recife.