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Sarah K. Bryant Bower

Areas of Expertise
International Finance
Financial Risk Management
International Economic Development
International Capital Markets
International Trading Blocs University
Business School Management

Language
English
French

Education
University of South Carolina, Ph.D.
University of South Carolina, B.S.


Contact
Phone: +1.202.785.8940


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Plexus Consulting Group, LLC
1620 Eye Street, NW
Suite 210
Washington, DC 20006
Phone:  +1.202.785.8940
Fax:      +1.202.785.8949
Email:   info@plexusconsulting.com


Sarah K. Bryant Bower has experience dealing with businesses, governments, and associations in many areas of finance, both international and domestic. This includes researching, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating complex financial and economic issues, including risk management and regional trade and development. She has conducted in-depth econometric and statistical analyses relating to interest rate risk, as well as provided authoritative comments on a wide variety of proposals and research studies, e.g., the US Presidential Task Force on Hedge Funds.

Dr. Bryant Bower has also provided training on International Capital Market Development in China, Beijing and Shanghai. She taught a series of topics (three times) for mid- to senior-level managers of commercial banks and finance companies in China on the US model of financial development, with application to the Chinese markets. In addition, she conducted an on-site study and wrote a report on "Trade Finance in Africa" for USAID, which was subsequently published. During this time, she became interested in Microenterprise Finance, especially in Africa, whereupon she spoke at various engagements.


US domestic training has included the Federal Reserve Bank Examiner School on Hedging Interest Rate Risk in Financial Institutions and the FDIC Bank Examiner School and Office of Thrift Supervision Examiner School on Mortgage Derivative Products, Interest Rate Risk Management, and Hedging Interest Rate Risk in Financial Institutions.


Dr. Bryant Bower is currently Dean of the College of Business at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. After working in US academia, government, and private business for 17 years, she went to London to broaden her experiences in the academic and international arenas. While there, she served as Executive Director (Associate Dean) of the MBA Programme at City University Business School in London, ranked 10 (EMBA) in the world in the Financial Times, October 2001.


Before moving to London, Dr. Bryant Bower taught both undergraduate and MBA finance courses at the University of Maryland, College Park, as an adjunct instructor while working for the Department of Treasury in the area of financial risk management of financial institutions. Prior to that, she served as Department Chair of Finance and International Business at Johns Hopkins University for four years.


Dr. Bryant Bower has published many articles on topics in international finance and economics, and is currently authoring a textbook on International Capital Markets, for a European publisher.