Charles R. Frank
Director, Chairman of Related Party Transactions Committee and member of Audit Committee and Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee
Charles R. Frank Jr. has served as a director since 2001. Mr Frank also currently serves as a non-executive board member of Mittal Steel Galati, the Romanian subsidiary of Mittal Steel Company N.V. and is a member of the investment committee of the Darby Converging Europe Mezzanine Fund. He is the former First Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where he was responsible for banking operations. He joined the EBRD in September 1997 after nearly ten years at GE Capital where he was Vice President and manager of global energy financing and international project finance. From 1978 to 1987, Frank was at Salomon Brothers, serving in international investment banking and as manager of the Project Finance Group.
From 1974 to 1978, he held various positions at the US Department of State, including Chief Economist on the Policy Planning Staff and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Social Affairs. He was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1972 to 1974. He was at Princeton University from 1967 to 1972 where he was a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and Director of the Research Program in Economic Development. He taught economics for two years each at the University of East Africa in Kampala, Uganda and Yale University from 1963 to 1967.
Frank holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University (1963) and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1959).
