Dr. Komal S. Sri-Kumar is President of the Santa Monica, California based Sri-Kumar Global Strategies, Inc., a macroeconomic consulting firm he formed in January 2013 to advise multinational firms and sovereign wealth funds on global risk and opportunities. Prior to founding the firm, Sri worked at the Los Angeles-based Trust Company of the West (TCW) from 1990 to 2012, serving for the last several years as Group Managing Director and Chief Global Strategist. He was Chairman of TCW’s Comprehensive Asset Allocation Committee from 1997 to 2015. Before his work at TCW, Sri was Senior Vice President at the Beverly Hills-based Drexel Burnham Lambert, and Executive Vice President of DBL Americas specializing in country risk analysis. He is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and was a member of the Alumni Board of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His articles and interviews have been published in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He has been a contributor to Bloomberg View. He is often interviewed on CNBC TV, and Bloomberg Radio and TV. His weekend note on the economy, SriKonomics, is widely read in the financial community. It is available by request and on Twitter (@SriKGlobal).Sri holds an M.A. degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and M.Phil and Ph.D degrees from Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation at Columbia University was supervised by Robert Mundell, Nobel Laureate in Economics (1999).