Salar Ghahramani is an associate professor of business law and international law & policy and the academic director for the Brandeis Global Engagement and Leadership Program at the Pennsylvania State University, Abington. His research is on corporate governance, the law of fiduciary duties, and the impact of domestic and international laws and policies on the governance, operations, and investment strategies of sovereign wealth funds. Salar’s analyses of sovereign wealth funds have appeared in Barron’s, Bloomberg, Chief Investment Officer, The New York Times, Pensions & Investments, and other finance and scholarly outlets.

In 2005, Salar founded Global Policy Advisors® LLC, a boutique sovereign wealth fund advisory to corporations, boards of directors, and institutional investors. GPA provides actionable insights, strategy sessions, and executive briefings on the multidimensional dynamics of sovereign wealth funds. The company is recognized for having published the first roadmap for a U.S. SWF.

A Fulbright grant recipient, Salar has taught at the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies in the Netherlands, has led academic programs to Amsterdam, Brussels, and The Hague, and has served as a visiting scholar at the University of Lucerne Faculty of Law, the University of Oslo, the Royal University of Law and Economics in Cambodia, the European University Institute in Florence, the Independent Lawyers’ Association of Myanmar in Yangon, and the Singapore Management University School of Law. He also served at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., analyzing the intersection of international relations and the financial markets, and was a research associate at the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), now a part of Gartner, where he advised Fortune 500 clients on business strategy.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree and a Certificate in International, Comparative, and Foreign Law from the Pennsylvania State University, where he also received his B.A. in International Politics as a Schreyer Scholar. At Penn State, he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and was a recipient of the Honors Medal and the President’s Award. Additionally, Salar studied transnational and comparative law at Duke Law School’s Geneva Institute in Transnational Law in Switzerland, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Rome, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Florence. He was also a recipient of a merit scholarship to research British theater and architecture in London.

Salar is a musician and a global arts advocate, having served on the board of directors of the World Music Institute in New York. His music is available on Amazon, Apple, Deezer, iTunes, iHeartRadio, and Spotify.