As someone who has spent his whole life moving between the worlds of international business / 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.

Mr. Goldberg is a subject matter expert in Global Business Studies, focusing on the complexities of Globalization and Global 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.

Mr. Goldberg has consulted 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. Among others, he has been cited by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times and in his book Hot Flat and Crowded, Roubini Global Economics, Yale Global on Line, and American Foreign Policy Interests. He also 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 differences 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.

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.