The Pioneer independent analysts

of emerging markets

Efficient Consultations and Strategic Advice for Clients

Economic and Financial Analyses for Clients Worldwide

About Our Firm

Kleiman International Consultants, Inc. is the global emerging financial markets specialists with over three decades serving commercial and official clients worldwide.

Kleiman International is the pioneer independent analyst of emerging market banking and securities markets, with a 30-year track record of providing research and strategic advisory services on economies worldwide for public and private sector clients.

The group provides analyses on economic, banking,financial institution, capital market, policy, and sector trends from a global perspective. The firm maintains regular contact with investors and policymakers around the world to monitor concerns and investment trends relating to the macroeconomic, institutional, legal, regulatory, and infrastructure environment.

All clients work directly with the firm’s founding partners, Gary Kleiman and Beth Morrissey. Kleiman International emphasizes a personalized and flexible approach in all client work. The quality of the group’s independent research is maintained through a small group of in-house professionals with a worldwide network of specialized consultants kept on roster to be used as needed.

Kleiman International

What We Offer

We maintain regular contact with investors and policymakers around the world to monitor concerns and investment trends relating to the macroeconomic, institutional, legal, regulatory, and infrastructure environments. Our firm analyzes the following from a global perspective:

  • Economics

  • Banking

  • Financial Institutions

  • Capital Markets

  • Policies

  • Sector Trends

Kleiman International

About Our Team

All of our clients work directly with the firm’s founding partners, Gary Kleiman and Beth Morrissey. Kleiman International emphasizes a personalized and flexible approach in all client work. The quality of our company’s independent research is maintained through a small group of in-house professionals with a worldwide network of specialized consultants kept on roster to be used as needed.

Why Choose Us

The firm accesses basic market, economic, financial, and policy information provided by the public and private sectors in each country, with whom the group maintains ongoing relations and partnerships. All final recommendations are original analyses based on more than 30 years of expertise and are delivered to meet clients’ specific requests.

Our Story

Kleiman International’s partners—Gary Kleiman, Senior Partner and Beth Morrissey, Managing Partner—founded the firm in New York City in 1987, the same year the term “emerging markets” was coined at the World Bank Group. We maintained offices on Wall Street prior to relocating to Washington, DC in 1992.

About Our Partners

The firm’s partners regularly participate in international conferences and seminars and contribute to international economic and financial publications. They are frequently contacted by the media for independent assessments of market and economic developments.

GARY N. KLEIMAN Senior Partner

Before co-founding our company, Gary held positions with international consulting firms in New York and Washington, as well as with the United Nations. Gary, magna cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, has also earned advanced degrees from the London School of Economics and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris).

Gary has been an adjust professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, a financial sector expert for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank’s First Initiative, and a regular contributor to the Financial Times, Asia Times, and International Economy. He is a cited member of the Breton Woods Committee and listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America.

He is often called on to provide expert witness testimony for court cases focused on issues such as debt repayment capacity and terrorism financing in emerging economies. Gary is also actively working to create new financial instruments for the private sector to help fund migrant assistance. There are ongoing discussions with global banks and international refugee and development organizations.

ELIZABETH R. MORRISSEY Managing Partner

Beth has worked for international consulting firms in New York and a research group in Washington before co-founding our firm. 

She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and
seminars. Beth has served on the Board of Admissions and International Committee of the University Club of Washington, DC, and is listed in the Who’s Who in Finance. She also started a PFLAG Chapter and established an independent group for the LGBTQ+ youth in her community.

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