Mike Casey (@mcaseyjr) is the Founder and Managing Director of Portico Advisers, a private markets advisory firm that serves investors active in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He has advised firms investing and operating in emerging markets for over a decade, and began his career working on strategy at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Mike’s articles and interviews have been published in Bloomberg, The Economist, Fast Company, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among other outlets.
Mike holds an MA in International Economics and International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.
Recent Blog Posts
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End the Value-Extraction Economy
Last spring, an editor at one of the big newspapers asked me to send in an opinion piece if an idea hit me.
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The Coming of the French Revolution
Snippets from the conclusion to Georges Lefebvre’s “The Coming of the French Revolution.”
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Crypto is the future
Some quick thoughts on why ‘the ownership economy’ is the work of our generation
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Favorite Books of 2020
Nine of my favorite reads from 2020.
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Galt’s Gulch, Higher Education, and the Blockchain
Will the credential of a university degree be valuable in 15 years?