Dr. Bradford Gibbs

Biography

Bradford Martin Gibbs is a Lecturer in the Economics Department at Brown University, where he teaches applied finance courses including Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions. Before returning to Providence in the summer of 2016, Gibbs obtained a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) and joined the Brown faculty in 2018. He spent 17 years abroad in major financial centers including London, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, and Dubai. He co-founded and took public a banking group focused on sub-Saharan Africa on the London Stock Exchange, serving as Interim CFO and a member of the Executive Committee, where he executed acquisitions in seven African countries and oversaw the raising of approximately $900 million in equity and equity-linked debt capital. Prior to that, Gibbs was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he worked for more than thirteen years executing mergers, acquisitions, and capital markets transactions across a broad array of industries totaling over $100 billion. During his tenure at Morgan Stanley, he held roles including Head of South Africa Investment Banking and Head of EMEA Chemicals, Building Materials, Paper & Packaging. In addition to his MAT from Brown, Gibbs earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 and a BA in History with Honors from Brown University in 1993, graduating magna cum laude and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He currently serves on the boards of the Providence Athenaeum and the Paul Cuffee School.

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