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Q&A with finance leader: Lead with context, coach with content

Future CFO

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Straight out of business school in 1995, I joined Mondelez International as a senior financial analyst for Kraft Foods in the United States.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. Risk management. That’s a long time.