James Haskel

Mr. James L.
Haskel is a Head of Client Service & Partner Director at Bridgewater Associates LP.
He is on the Board of Directors at Berkshire School, Inc. He joined Bridgewater in 2003.
Mr. Haskel is one of three Partner Directors on Bridgewater’s Operating Board of Directors, where he serves on the Finance and Governance committees.
He is also a Partner at the firm and on the Partner’s Leadership Committee, which oversees the partnership.
From 2003-2020, Mr. Haskel was Senior Portfolio Strategist, partnering with Bridgewater’s CIOs and senior researchers on all aspects of the firm’s market, economic, and portfolio structuring content, and communicated this content to the Bridgewater’s largest clients and the broader external world.
He oversaw the Strategists and overall content from 2011-2018.
In 2021, Mr. Haskel became Editor of the Bridgewater Daily Observations, Bridgewater’s signature daily newsletter where he created the firm’s first publicly disseminated podcasts.
From 2001-2003, Mr. Haskel was Senior Investment Strategist to Goldman Sachs high net worth clients and helped oversee the creation of the Investment Strategy Group (ISG).
From1996-2001, he was an Emerging Markets Debt and Currency analyst and portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Haskel held two jobs that were related to each other.
He as 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.
Mr. Haskel received his MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1996, and a BA from Franklin and Marshall College in 1990.