Tom Keene, CFA

‘It is about the guests, the conversation. I am the luckiest guy on Wall Street.’

Tom Keene is a Managing Editor for Bloomberg Television and Radio but far more for the new new of Digital Media including Podcasts & YouTube. He is deep into his second decade at Bloomberg.

Matthew Winkler, founder of Bloomberg News asked him to conceive ‘Chart of the Day’ for the Bloomberg Terminal, and to lead the re-issuance of the Homer & Leibowitz classic, Inside the Yield Book. He edited ‘Flying on One Engine’ a pre-crisis, 14 chapters written by leading economists. Two chapters appeared in the CFA curriculum. He represented Bloomberg News at economic events in Beijing, Marrakech, Paris & Singapore. Tom Keene founded Bloomberg on the Economy & Bloomberg Surveillance. The premise: longer conversations with guests on Economics, Finance, Investment & International Relations while at the same time covering Equities, Bonds, Currencies & Commodities. The foundation of the shows from day-one was the Winkler creed, ‘Names Make News’.

He has enjoyed conversations with Allan Meltzer as crisis unfolded in 2007, Meghnad Lord Desai the evening of the 2008 Mumbai attacks and, Milton Friedman & Robert Lucas on the need for more microeconomics. Near Tokyo Station, he interviewed John Dower on Hiroshima. At Davos, Tom Keene survived a joint interview of Kenneth Rogoff & Joseph Stiglitz. Bill Gross & Mohamed El-Erian survived an interview on known knowns. He and Christine Lagarde have discussed square-dancing (They did not allemande left). He listened as Edward Lazear described windsurfing under the Golden Gate Bridge. But far more, it is the daily grind of a global audience’s fear of the unknown unknowns as described by the markets: Seasoned strategists and analysts confident in their surveillance.

Tom Keene is a textbook Kodak brat of Rochester, New York. He studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado and took parchment in Ice Hockey & Biology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He studied through the External Programme of the London School of Economics. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Society Boston and CFA Society New York. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York, and the Council on Foreign Relations.