Kellogg Grad Highlights Global Trends In Private Equity

Supply and demand are not the only laws impacting investment decisions for some, including Bahrain-based private equity firm Arcapita. "Back in the '70s and '80s, the Middle East was basically viewed as a dumping ground for private equity," said Andrea Malik Roe '07, a principal in Atlanta office of Arcapita, the investment arm of Arcapita Bank. Roe, the latest guest of the Kellogg School's Distinguished Private Equity Investor Speaker Series, spoke Feb. 6 in the Donald P. Jacobs Center. Her presentation, "Middle East Private Equity Goes Global," focused on the difficulties private equity firms have traditionally faced in the Middle East and the ways some firms are beginning to overcome these hurdles.