Peter Tropper has more than 35 years of investment and advisory experience in over 200 funds in several regions. His guidance is regularly sought by institutional investors, fund managers, and policymakers. Tropper advises fund managers and institutional investors on private equity fund formation and governance issues. He has served as a senior advisor to the Global Private Capital Association (formerly the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association, or EMPEA) and chair of EMPEA’s Frontier Markets Council. He has been appointed to numerous private equity fund advisory committees and teaches a course in The Wharton School’s master of business administration program on private equity in emerging markets.

Tropper spent most of his career at the International Finance Corp. (IFC). In his final role as chief investment officer in IFC’s Private Equity Group, he set up the Small and Medium Enterprises Ventures program for funds that invest in small enterprises in frontier markets. He has a bachelor of arts from Yale University, a master of business administration from the University of Maryland, and a master’s in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.