Edward Goldberg

Edward Goldberg: Profile

Edward Goldberg is a subject matter expert in Global Business Studies, focusing on Globalization and the interplay among business, culture and politics in implementing cross border business strategies. He teaches various courses related to international business and globalization as well as international marketing and international trade at Zicklin Graduate School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York. He is also on the visiting faculty of University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business where he teaches international trade and export. His USC Marshall School course, Creating Success in the International Marketplace is featured on the New York Times Knowledge Network.

Mr. Goldberg has also been nominated for the prestigious Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching at Baruch College. Through his consulting firm Annisa Group, Mr. Goldberg has worked on global issues with such major companies as Goldman Sachs, Rockefeller Brother’s Fund, and Raiffeisen Zentralbank.

He is a much-quoted author and essayist on the subjects of globalization, U.S. economics, European-American relations, international trade and U.S.-Russian relations. He has been cited several times by Thomas Friedman in his column the New York Times as well as in his book Hot Flat and Crowded. His writings have also been mentioned in Roubini Global Economics, Yale Global online, and American Foreign Policy Interests. He writes a regular column for the Globalist, the daily on line magazine on the global economy, politics and culture. He has been interviewed by CNBC Television, Public Radio, CBS Radio, the Associated Press Radio as well as Russian State Television. He is currently writing a book on how globalization has changed American politics.

Mr. Goldberg lectured at CEDEP/INSEAD on the subject of questioning rather than assuming cultural and historical difference in creating success in a semi-flat world. He has also lectured on Global Business Strategy at IESE. In addition he has lectured at the Kennan Institute, the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, the New School, LSU and the European Union Study Center of the City University of New York as well as the Weissman Center for International Business.

He represented the United States Department of State at the International Conference on International Relations and Problems of Globalization in St. Petersburg, Russia where he delivered the opening address. Mr. Goldberg was a member of President Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy Network Team for the 2008 Presidential election and was a member of Senator John Kerry’s Russia and CIS Policy Team during the 2004 United States presidential election.

Mr. Goldberg began his career in international business at one of America’s largest international agricultural trading companies, working his way up from sales person to Vice President, International Marketing and Principal in several of the operating divisions. The combination of international business experience and academia has given Mr. Goldberg a deep understanding of the strategic issues involved in international business and trade. Mr. Goldberg graduated from American University.