April 2, 2016

David started his career in the oil exploration business in the jungles of Papua New Guinea working for almost three years as a seismologist. In 1986, David joined JP Morgan and trained in NY on their internal MBA equivalent finance program, following which he traded the FX, bonds, equities and commodities on JPM’s first European Prop desk. In 1997, David co-founded Emergent Asset Management and in 2006, EmVest, resulting in the launch of Emergent’s African Land Fund in 2008 for which he acted as Chairman until its sale in 2011. In 2011, after five years of extensive research, David combined his fascination with military history, geopolitics and finance into a unified geopolitical model and published “Breaking the Code of History”. This book highlights the key factors in today’s changing world, as power shifts from the West to the East, the power of the commodity cycle and climate change. David has a 2:1 Honours degree in Geophysics from Exeter University.