Tara Hariharan is co-chief investment officer and head of global research and strategy at NWI Management LP, a New York City-based global macro hedge fund. She partners with NWI's founder and CIO on investment strategy and portfolio construction, and leads top-down analysis of economic activity, policy, and macro-political issues for developed and developing countries. She regularly presents her assessments of China's economy and Sino-American relations to senior US and emerging markets policymakers and International Monetary Fund representatives. She created NWI's proprietary "macro dashboard" to identify strategic investment opportunities in fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, and commodities.
Hariharan is deeply involved with several prominent foreign policy organizations. She serves on the boards of two premier transatlantic organizations— GMF and the American Council on Germany—and on the Atlantic Council's Millennium Fellowship Program Advisory Council. She is an active life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Economic Club of New York and the US Chamber of Commerce Chief Economists' Committee. As a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, she regularly contributes to its publications on trade flows and China's influence on Latin America.
Hariharan was a 2024 recipient of Crain's New York Business "40 Under 40" award. She appears on CNBC and Bloomberg Television and is quoted by Reuters on China, emerging markets and global macroeconomics. She is a seasoned public speaker and moderator of events on global economics, financial markets and foreign policy, and transatlantic relations with a focus on the German economy.
Hariharan has been awarded several prestigious fellowships for rising leaders in foreign policy. She was a 2023 Millennium Leadership Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a 2022 Economic Club of New York Fellow, a 2017-2021 Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a 2016 American Council on Germany Young Leader, and a 2014 GMF Marshall Memorial Fellow.