George R. Hoguet

George Hoguet is a private investor and CEO of Chesham Investments, LLC. He also consults with various institutional investment committees. He led the active institutional equity investment team of emerging markets for many years. He served as a Global Investment Strategist at State Street Global Advisors, one of the world’s largest investment managers. In this capacity, he worked with some of the world’s largest institutional investors, including central banks and sovereign wealth funds. He spent the first part of his career in investment banking at Citicorp Investment Bank and Bankers Trust Company, where he worked on oil and gas mergers and acquisitions and supervised the bank’s business in Africa. From 1981-1984, he served at the US Treasury Department, first as US Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank and subsequently as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.

His prior and current affiliations/directorships include: President of - the Boston Economic Club; Executive Committee of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations; Board Chair - of CFA Society of Boston; Advisory Committee – of Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard; Trustee - The Research Foundation of CFA Institute; Advisory Board - Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) and Advisory Committee -  Harvard Seminar on the Politics and Economics of International Finance; Member – American Economic Association; Bretton Woods Society; Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA); Council on Foreign Relations; National Association of Business Economists (NABE). He has published extensively in investments and presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research and other academic and industry forums. 

George graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School and holds an MA in Economics from Boston University. He earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a qualified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).