Matthew Saal
Mathew Saal is a Senior Vice President at PRI Project Development LLC, an international financial advisory and project development firm based in New York.
Prior to joining PRI, Mr. Saal was Vice President of WPA, Inc., the fund manager for Africa International Financial Holdings, a private equity fund focused on banking in sub-Saharan Africa. Previously he had been a Vice President in retail financial services strategy at JP Morgan Chase, and Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at a JP Morgan-backed financial services startup.
From 1998-2000 Mr. Saal was a Managing Director at Medley Global Advisors, LLC, where he advised hedge fund and investment bank clients on macro-political and economic risk, covering emerging markets in Asia and Latin America as well as global financial system issues. Prior to Medley, Mr. Saal was a management consultant with Mitchell Madison Group, focusing on financial services, and an economist at the International Monetary Fund, where he worked on structural adjustment programs in Tanzania and Uganda, and advised the central banks of Tanzania, Uganda, Croatia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Mr. Saal began his financial services career at Morgan Stanley.
Mr. Saal graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Chemistry, with joint recognition from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs program. He has a Masters in Economics from Oxford University (Balliol College), where he studied as a British Marshall Scholar.