As some one who has spent his whole life moving between the worlds of U.S-Russian business, international trade / trade finance and academia, Edward Goldberg has a unique appreciation of the interplay between business, culture and politics in implementing cross border business strategies. He understands the necessity for global leaders to be attuned to culture, and socio- economics conditions in order to create success in a semi flat world.

He lectures at the Zicklin Graduate School of Business, Baruch College of the City University of New York where he teaches international Marketing Management and International Trade. He also teaches Market, Cultures and Regimes at the New School. He was also awarded a grant by Mitsui USA for curriculum development in reference to international trade. Mr Goldberg lectured this past year at CEDEP/Insead in Fontainebleau, France on the subject of questioning rather then assuming cultural and historic difference in creating success in a semi flat world.

Mr. Goldberg 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. He has also lectured on International business at the Lubin Graduate School of Business, Pace University and at the Weissman Center for International Business. In addition he has spoken at the Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. as well as the Harriman Institute of Columbia University and at the New School. He has also testified before the United States Senate on International Trade matters. Mr. Goldberg was a member of President Obama’s Foreign Policy Network Team for the 2008 Presidential election and was a member of Senator Kerry’s Russia and CIS Policy Team, for the 2004 United States Presidential Election.

Mr. Goldberg has written numerous articles on Globalization, U.S. Economics, European-American relations, and the U.S. / Russian relationship for the Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times and the Chicago Tribune, as well as The Globalist and American Foreign Policy Interest. His essay on the relationship between destructive technologies and the energy industry was quoted extensively by Thomas L. Friedman in Hot, Flat and Crowded. He has also co-authored an article on the Russian Agricultural crisis for Inter Trade and Investment Magazine. He has been quoted in the New York Times and has been featured in the Foreign Affairs Academic Update of Foreign Affairs magazine as well as YaleGlobal Online, the flagship publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He has been interviewed by CNBC Television, Public Radio, and CBS radio, the Associated Press Radio as well as Russian State Television.

Mr. Goldberg is President of Annisa Group a consulting firm that advises public and private sector clients on strategic issues involving international trade, exports and trade finance.

Previously he founded and served as President of F.J. Elsner North America Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Goldberg built the company into one of the major bulk commodity trading firms in the United States dealing with Eastern Europe, Russia the Mid East and Asia.

While at Elsner he created a unique financing strategy that allowed the firm to become one of the leading companies exporting American Agricultural products (primarily poultry and other frozen protein) to Russia and Eastern Europe. He also led the firm to a leadership position trading in steel, forest products, and petro-chemicals.

Mr. Goldberg began his business career with the Chilewich Group, one of the foremost American agricultural trading companies doing business with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asia. He started as a sales trainee and rose to become Vice President, International Marketing and Principal in several of the operating divisions including having responsibility for Asia.

He has a Bachelors degree in Political Science from the American University School of Public Administration.