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First Person with Claudia Imhoff: David Apgar

Published: August 11, 2008

David Apgar, Director for Investment and Risk Strategy at BlueOrchard Finance and author of “Relevance: Hitting Your Goals by Knowing What Matters”, a book that helps leaders pinpoint which information matters most for successful goal setting.

David Apgar

David Apgar is the Director for Investment and Risk Strategy at BlueOrchard Finance, oldest of the for-profit microfinance funds and a long-time Managing Director at the Corporate Executive Board, where he launched best practices research programs for corporate controllers and treasurers between 2001 and 2003. He joined the Board in 1998 from McKinsey, where he served insurance, reinsurance and capital markets clients as a consultant and an engagement manager for three years. Prior to that, he was responsible for numerous finance company, bank and insurer mergers and acquisitions assignments as a Vice President in Lehman Brothers’ Financial Institutions Group, and for building a framework for bank security sales as senior policy advisor to the Comptroller of the Currency. He proposed a debt relief program for Mexico and designed the precursor to interest rate relief Brady bonds as staff economist to Senator Bill Bradley.

Apgar holds an AB from Harvard, an MA from Oxford, and a PhD from the RandGraduateSchool. He occasionally teaches risk management and international development at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don’t Know (2006) and Relevance: Hitting Your Goals by Knowing What Matters.