Loren Bushkar is the Managing Director of the Global Membership Department at the Institute of International Finance (IIF). She is responsible for the retention of the IIF’s almost 450 members and recruitment of new members throughout the 70 countries where the IIF has members.
Previously, Ms. Bushkar was an Executive Director and Investment Strategist on the J.P. Morgan Private Bank Investment Strategy team. She was responsible for economic and investment-related analysis, and multi-asset class analysis spanning global equities, global fixed income, foreign exchange, structured investments, hedge funds and hard assets.
Ms. Bushkar was the chief of staff to the CEO at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association from 2008 to 2010 throughout the passage of the Dodd-Frank legislation. Before joining SIFMA, she spent four years at J.P. Morgan Securities in Structured Credit and Securitized Products originating consumer ABS and CDO transactions.
Education
Ms. Bushkar received a B.S. in Systems Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia, where she was a Rodman Scholar and graduated with distinction. She sits on the Board of Directors of Eastern Market Main Street.