Edmund L. Luzine, Jr.

Edmund L. Luzine, Jr. is a senior global policy analyst at RAND. He is the Founder of Adirondack Capital International and Ausable Funds - both focused on the global emerging markets. Prior to founding Adirondack, he was a Vice President at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson North America, LLC (now Commerzbank) where he founded the emerging markets sales, trading and research unit after having worked in the emerging markets division of First Chicago (JP Morgan). He completed a range of sovereign and corporate transactions across Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. He was an Advisor to the World Bank in Sarajevo as part of the team that implemented the post-war reconstruction program, developed a new currency, coordinated privatizations, and developed an Emergency Pilot Credit Program for SME lending. He is a retired Army reserve special operations intelligence officer and, in his last assignment, served as a China Country Director for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Other military assignments include duties at the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), EUCOM's Joint Analysis Center (JAC) at RAF Molesworth, and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He served in Afghanistan and Iraq as a SOF plans officer, and he worked at the State Department as part of the Future of Iraq Work Groups.

Luzine received his M.B.A. in finance, economics, and business public policy from the University of Rochester.