Jim R. Capra

Dr. Jim R.
Capra is Founder & President at Capra Asset Management, LLC.
Dr. Capra founded Capra Asset Management in March 1995.
Prior to this, he was a Principal at Moore Capital Management.
He also served as Senior Vice-President and Proprietary Trader on the government securities desk at Lehman Brothers.
In addition to being one of Lehman Brothers' traders, Dr. Capra also served as Chief Strategist for the fixed income group.
Before that, he was an officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he served as Director of Domestic Economic Research.
He was also the Chief Budget Projections at the Congressional Budget Office where he coordinated the preparation of budget estimates for the annual Congressional budget resolutions.
His Budget Projections Unit was in charge of CBO calculations of interest on the public debt and the status of the debt relative to the debt limit.
Dr. Capra received a B.A.
in Government from Georgetown University, holds an M.S.
in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, where he also obtained a Ph.D.
in Operations Research.
He has been a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee that advises the U.S.
Treasury on the structure of its debt financing since 1994.
As of January 2001, Dr. Capra has assumed the position of Chairman of the Committee.