CONVERSATIONS at the INTERSECTION of ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND DIPLOMACY.
Intersection with Jack Wright
CONVERSATIONS at the INTERSECTION of ECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND DIPLOMACY.
bio
Jack is an Australian journalist based in New York City. He is a contributor to The Washington Post and The Australian Financial Review and a former Executive Director of JP Morgan Chase’s Commercial & Investment Banking group.
Prior to JPM, he worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, Hong Kong and Sydney. In 2006, Jack was ranked the 10th best speaker in the world at the World University Debating Championships.
He has interviewed a wide range of high-profile subjects including US Ambassador to China and former US Senator, Max Baucus, Commander NATO and U.S. forces Iraq & Afghanistan U.S. 4-star General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus, New York Times Best Selling Author and Putin critic Bill Browder, the first female Deputy Minister for the Afghan Interior Hosna Jalil, and Australian Ambassador to the United States and former Treasurer of Australia The Hon. Joe Hockey.
Jack's work focuses on bringing insights from the financial sector to the popular discussion on important economic, political, and diplomatic issues facing the world.
recent features
The Washington Post
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review
On Aug. 19, 1991, Pevzner stood opposite Moscow’s Russian parliament building and watched Boris Yeltsin climb atop a tank to speak out in defiance of the military coup underway to oust Mikhail Gorbachev. As Russian civilians poured into a nearby square to protest the coup, Pevzner saw the writing on the wall.
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review
When China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported quarterly GDP expanded by 18 per cent in April – the strongest growth rate since it began publishing the statistic in 1993 – Wall Street traders’ screens were illuminated in green. The main board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, on the other hand, was soaked in red.
The Australian
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian
The American electorate is faced with a choice that will determine the trajectory of its future: whether to use the events of the past three months as a catalyst to arrest the downward spiral of its political dialogue, or perpetuate it and ultimately cede its position as global leader.