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Charles R. Frank Jr. is a financial advisor and non-executive director for a number of private companies, including LNM Holdings, a privately owned steel company with investments in emerging markets; and Baneasa Investments, a real estate development joint venture between the Agricultural University of Bucharest and a local Romanian developer. He is the former First Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where he was responsible for banking operations. He joined the EBRD in September 1997 after nearly ten years at GE Capital where he was Vice President and manager of global energy financing and international project finance. From 1978 to 1987, Frank was at Salomon Brothers, serving in international investment banking and as manager of the Project Finance Group.
From 1974 to 1978, he held various positions at the US Department of State, including Chief Economist on the Policy Planning Staff and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Social Affairs. He was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1972 to 1974. He was at Princeton University from 1967 to 1972 where he was a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and Director of the Research Program in Economic Development. He taught economics for two years each at the University of East Africa in Kampala, Uganda and Yale University from 1963 to 1967.
Frank holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University (1963) and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1959). | 