Jim Haskel

Jim joined Bridgewater in 2003 and is a Partner and Head of Client Service at the firm. He also continues to serve as the Editor of the Bridgewater Daily Observations, is a member of Bridgewater’s Operating Committee, and chairs the firm’s Commercial Committee. From 2003 to 2020, Jim served as a Senior Portfolio Strategist. He was also a member of Bridgewater’s Operating Board of Directors from 2018-2025 and was one of three people named as Bridgewater’s Seed Partners, tasked with building out all aspects of Bridgewater’s partnership to help transition the firm from an iconic founder to its next phase as an institutional money management firm.

Prior to Bridgewater, Jim was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, serving from 1996 to 2003. From 1991 to 1994, he was an Associate Economist at Caxton Associates, a macro hedge fund as well as an economics researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, where he published numerous analytical pieces on international economic and financial topics in leading newspapers around the world. Jim received his MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1996 and a BA from Franklin and Marshall College in 1990. He currently serves as Chair of the Board at Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA, a grade 9-12 preparatory school he attended and graduated from in 1986. Jim, his wife Annie, and their three children reside in Westport, CT.

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