My Motto: Je pense, donc je suis (Cogito, ergo sum). - Proactive as a multi-lingual, academic, economist, social and political analyst, and investment professional with over 30 y of experience in global affairs and markets. - Managed institutional, HNW and retail portfolios, designed hedging strategies, traded derivatives and analysed several thousand bonds, companies, funds, hedge funds and SPV- Raised due diligence concerns and warned investors and counterparts of disasters, scams and bad investments (Maddoff, Woodford, Homm etc)- Discovered future star fund managers, teams and firms at an early stage- Successfully built and managed businesses - Consulted, trained and taught myriads of bankers, investment professionals, Investors and students in Europe, USA and Asia - Advised boards on strategy and tactics A former banker, trader and due diligence expert he is the CEO of Schmidt Research Partners and CIO of Schmidt Wealth Management™. An academic since 1999, he is currently an Assistant Professor in Finance at Regent's University London, an external evaluator for global academic programs and sits on the board of several charities. Interested in art, business, education, languages, philosophy and religion. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA).