Finance is at the core of making informed business decisions. Columbia GSB’s finance division provides a complete finance training with a carefully integrated core curriculum and over 100 elective courses to train students to manage their own finances as well as for career success in asset management, investment banking, real estate, financial technology firms, management consulting, and for roles in central banks and government.
Boaz Abramson is an assistant professor in the finance division at Columbia Business School. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2022, and holds a MA and BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Patricia Angus, JD, MIA, TEP, is Founder and CEO of Angus Advisory Group LLC, an Adjunct Professor and Founder of the Global Family Enterprise Program Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
Professor Arzac is an expert on corporate finance and valuation. He teaches the advanced corporate finance courses in the MBA and Executive MBA programs, directs the Merger, Buyouts and Corporate Restructuring program for executives, and co-directs the Mergers and Acquisitions program for executives at London Business School. He is the author of the book Valuation for Mergers, Buyouts and Restructuring and has published many articles in finance and economics journals.
Professor Tania Babina joined the Columbia Business School in 2016. She received a Ph.D. from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina. Her research is at the juncture of corporate finance, labor economics, and entrepreneurship. More broadly, she studies inter-relationship between human capital and firm investment, financing, and organizational choices. Her current research explores drivers of entrepreneurship and factors predicting entrepreneurial success. Long-term, she seeks to understand how human capital affects the nature of a firm and firm boundaries.
Christopher M. Begg is the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, and Co-Founder of East Coast Asset Management, Inc. Prior to co-founding East Coast, Chris was a Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst at Moody Aldrich Partners, LLC. Prior to Chris’s time at Moody Aldrich Partners, he was a Principal of Boston Research and Management where he served as a Portfolio Manager.
Professor Bekaert teaches courses on international finance, empirical asset pricing and investments. His research focus is international finance, with a particular interest in foreign exchange market efficiency, exchange rate determination and international and emerging equity markets. He is also interested in portfolio management.
Patrick Bolton is the David Zalaznick Professor of Business. He joined Columbia Business School in July 2005. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1986 and holds a BA in economics from the University of Cambridge and a BA in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He began his career as an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to Harvard University, joining their economics department from 1987-1989. He was Chargé de Recherche at the C.N.R.S.
Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia Business School, Director of the Business School’s Program for Financial Studies Initiative on Finance and Growth in Emerging Markets, and a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. His research spans the areas of banking, corporate finance, financial history, and monetary economics.
Ellen Carr has over two decades of experience as a high yield bond portfolio manager, most recently at Weaver C. Barksdale (WCB), a majority-women-owned, institutional fixed income investment management firm based in Nashville, TN. She specializes in the construction and management of high yield and core plus bond portfolios. Prior to joining WCB, she served as senior vice president and a high yield portfolio manager for institutional separate accounts and mutual funds for The Capital Group Companies/American Funds in Los Angeles, CA.
Professor Chotalia is a venture capitalist focused on both direct venture capital investments as well as liquidity solutions for the venture capital industry.
His investments include AutoLeap, Avenue8, BentoBox (acquired by Fiserv), Front, LaunchDarkly, Loftium (acquired by Flyhomes), Casper (IPO), Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever), The Honest Company (IPO), HelloGiggles (acquired by Time, Inc.), PureWow (acquired by Vayner Media), and Retention Science.
Paul Clifford has over 20 years of origination, structuring and execution experience in the Project Finance sector. He arrange and advised on financings for infrastructure projects in the US and international markets at Standard Chartered Bank and other global banks, where he was responsible for negotiating and executing multi-billion dollar deals across Oil & Gas, Power & Energy, Renewables, Infrastructure and Mining & Metals industry sectors. His experience covers Middle East, South Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Mark Cooper is a Portfolio Manager and analyst at First Eagle Investment Management. He is a co-portfolio manager on the International Small Cap Value strategy. Mark also is a global small cap generalist and covers oil field services, surface transportation and logistics across all capitalizations.
Jay Dahya's primary areas of expertise are corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate valuation, and international financial markets. He has taught finance at the undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and PhD level, and is the recipient of several teaching awards for his efforts in the classroom. His research has been published in leading finance journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, among others.
Kent Daniel is the Jean-Marie Eveillard/First Eagle Investment Management Professor of Business in the Finance Division at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. From 1996 to 2006, Kent was at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was the John and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Finance (on leave from 2004-2006). Previously, he served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of British Columbia.
Professor Olivier Darmouni is a financial economist whose research interests span corporate finance, banking and industrial organization. He applies a variety of empirical methods to understand how frictions, in particular asymmetric information, affect credit markets. Prior to joining Columbia, Olivier graduated from a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.
Ivo de Wit is an Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow at Columbia Business School and has been a visiting lecturer at University of Cambridge, New York University, MIT, University of Connecticut and University of Northern Carolina.
Ivo is a Managing Director at CBRE Global Investors and has over 20 years of real estate investment experience across the world. He has been the Fund Manager of the core+ global flag ship fund of CBRE Global Investors since inception which grew to $5Bn+ of equity.
Peter Eliot manages money at Capital Research Company, which he joined in 2004 after graduating from Columbia with an MBA and an MIA from the School of International and Public Affairs. While at Columbia, Peter authored The Analyst's Cookbook. Prior to Columbia, Peter spent five years in Russia, as an investment officer of Sovereign Asset Management and, prior to that, as an investment banker for Salomon Brothers.
Michael Ewens is the David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance and co-director of the Private Equity Program. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies, Assoicate Editor at Management Science, Associate Editor at the Journal of Corporate Finance, and co-editor of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. He received a Ph.D.
Avi Friedman is a Retired Managing Member and Senior Advisor of Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, a global investment management firm with approximately $37 billion in assets under management and over 500 employees across seven global offices. He joined Davidson Kempner in 2001 and was promoted to Managing Member in 2006. Mr. Friedman co-managed all the credit portfolios of the firm, including distressed investments, high yield, convertible arbitrage, real estate and structured products.
Michael Gatto was one of the first employees at Silver Point Capital, a credit-focused hedge fund. After joining the Firm in April 2002, he became the first non-founding partner in January 2003. He has helped grow the business from $120MM of assets under management in 2002 to approximately $13.5 billion currently.
Today, he is the head of the Firm’s Private Side Businesses. Prior to joining Silver Point, Mr. Gatto worked at Goldman Sachs as a senior member within the Special Situations Investing Business.
Kristin Gilbertson is the Chief Investment Officer at Access Industries, a private holding company. She was previously the Chief Investment Officer for the University of Pennsylvania and a Managing Director at the Stanford Management Company. She began her investment career at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Kristin holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from Harvard University. She has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School since 2018.
Michael Giliberto retired in 2010 as a Managing Director at JPMorgan Asset Management, the global investment management business of JPMorgan Chase. Mr. Giliberto oversaw U.S. real estate portfolio management and global strategy and research within the Global Real Assets Group.
Xavier Giroud is the Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
David has over 15 years of experience investing in distressed, special situations and all-weather credit strategies, including as a Partner and Portfolio Manager of Standard General, LP. and Sunago Capital Partners LP. He also serves as Executive Chairman of Turning Point Brands, Inc. (NYSE: TPB), a Director of National Cinemedia, Inc.
Lawrence R. Glosten is the S. Sloan Colt Professor of Banking and International Finance at Columbia Business School. He is also co-director (with Merritt Fox and Ed Greene) of the Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets at Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School and is an adjunct faculty member at the Law School. He has been at Columbia since 1989, before which he taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota.
Michael Grad is an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia GSB and received a Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011. Through December 2008, Professor Grad was an investment banker for 25 years with several Wall Street firms. His areas of expertise include financial sponsor banking, leveraged finance and LBOs, debt restructuring and bankruptcy, and M&A. Since the beginning of 2009, Professor Grad has been a Senior Managing Director in the Restructuring Group at AIG.
Jeff Gramm manages Bandera Partners, a value-oriented hedge fund based in New York City. He has served on several public company boards and is the author of Dear Chairman, a history of shareholder activism that has been described as "a grand story" and an "illuminating read" by the Wall Street Journal, "a revelation" by the Financial Times, and "an excellent read" by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times. Jeff has taught Applied Value Investing with Terry Kontos since 2011. He received his MBA from Columbia Busines
Professor Gundlach is a Director of Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers LLC, an investment firm based in New York City. He was formerly with Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and ING/Artemis Advisors LLC. He received his MBA (2001) from Columbia Business School and his BS (1993) and MS (1994) degrees from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin.
John Haggerty is a partner in and co-chair of Goodwin’s Public M&A / Corporate Governance practice. He works on a wide variety of corporate and securities matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities by public companies, corporate governance and other matters of general corporate and securities law. He has been recognized in the Corporate/M&A: Capital Markets category by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Scott Hendrickson is a Partner and the Co-Founder of Permian Investment Partners, a $2.2 billion management-focused global long/short investment fund. Prior to co-founding Permian, Mr. Hendrickson worked at Brahman Capital as an Investment Analyst. Prior to Brahman, Mr. Hendrickson worked as an Associate at Industrial Growth Partners, a middle-market focused private equity fund. Mr. Hendrickson started his career as an Analyst in Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking Program. Mr.
Professor Donna M. Hitscherich currently serves as a senior lecturer of Finance, director of the Private Equity Program, and a Bernstein Faculty Leader at the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. Professor Hitscherich’s courses include Corporate Finance as well as the elective courses Business Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Advanced Corporate Finance. In 2002, she was nominated for the Dean’s Award for Innovation in the MBA Curriculum for her presentation of the Advanced Corporate Finance course.
Laurie Simon Hodrick is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the A. Barton Hepburn Professor Emerita of Economics in the Faculty of Business at Columbia Business School.
Professor Hodrick teaches both fundamental and advanced courses in international finance. His expertise is in the valuation of financial assets. His current research explores the empirical implications of theoretical pricing models that generate time-varying risk premiums in the markets for bonds, equities and foreign currencies. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
David Horn is the Managing Partner of Kiron Advisors LLC which serves as the Investment Advisor for Kiron Partners L.P. Prior to founding the firm in 2006, Mr. Horn served as a research analyst at Perennial Partners, a long/short value oriented fund, from 2004-2005. At Perennial, he was a generalist, covering long and short investments of varying sizes across a range of industry groups. In 2003, he served as a research analyst at the Hummingbird Value Funds, a long only, value oriented, micro-cap fund. While attending Columbia Business School, Mr.
Gur Huberman is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance at Columbia Business School where he has taught since 1989. Prior to that, he taught at Tel Aviv University and at the University of Chicago. Between 1993 and 1995 he was Vice President at JP Morgan Investment Management responsible for research on quantitative equity trading. In that capacity, he also helped develop tax aware strategies for the private bank. He earned his Ph.D. (with distinction) in operations research from Yale in 1980 and his B.Sc. (cum laude) in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1975.
Takatoshi Ito is one of Japan premier economists. A professor at the prestigious University of Tokyo, he is the author or co-author of several books on the Japanese and global economy. He served in the Japanese government as Deputy Vice Minister for International Finance in the Ministry of Finance and was a member of Japan’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. He has been a senior advisor in the research department of the International Monetary Fund and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.
Andrew Jacobs is a Managing Director and Partner at Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management, having joined the firm in 2008. Professor Jacobs is responsible for identifying, evaluating and overseeing real estate private equity fund managers and investment opportunities. Investments span the capital stack, property types and global markets, but his focus is managers based in the eastern United States and Brazil. Professor Jacobs also seeks and reviews opportunities to purchase interests in underlying funds on the secondary market.
Professor Johannes’s research analyzes the empirical content of fixed-income and derivative securities pricing models. He is particularly interested in developing econometric methods to investigate models with jumps and stochastic volatility. Johannes teaches the elective Capital Markets and Investments.
Professor Johnson runs Nicusa Investment Advisors, an advisory firm focused on helping CEOs and Boards of Directors deal with strategy, capital allocation, shareholder value creation, and corporate governance. Johnson applies his 35 years of experience as an investment professional, combined with his 30 years as a business school professor, to help senior managers sort through these critical strategic issues.
Robert Johnson is a Partner Emeritus with the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, having practiced commercial litigation for 30 years. Much of that time was spent on litigation of contested matters in the bankruptcy cases of Washington Mutual, Nortel, Lehman Bros., and Enron. Robert is now retired from full-time law firm practice, but teaches occasional workshops in deposition skills and trial advocacy, and he volunteers with the Ali Forney Center, a non-profit in New York City.
Efrem Kamen is Managing Member at Pura Vida Investments, a life sciences investment firm he co-founded in 2012. The firm has significant investments across the healthcare universe, including Medical Technology, Life Science Tools and Biotechnology.
Mr. Kravit is currently a Senior Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management on the Supply Chain and Strategic Opportunities team, which invests in businesses driving next-generation technologies and capabilities that advance supply chain integrity and national security. Mr. Kravit is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and teaches the Real Estate Distressed Investing course.
Daniel Krueger is a Partner at Owl Creek Asset Management, a hedge fund based in New York, where he is the Global Head of Credit and Co-Portfolio Manager. Mr. Krueger has been with Owl Creek since its inception in February 2002. Owl Creek invests in event-driven value opportunities across all parts of the capital structure, and Mr. Krueger focuses much of his time on distressed securities. Prior to Owl Creek, Mr. Krueger worked at Angelo Gordon and Chase Securities Inc.
Brian P. Lancaster is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Finance at the Columbia Business School. Professor Lancaster teaches the following courses: Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Debt Markets, Residential Real Estate Finance: Dirt, Debt and Derivatives, Capital Markets and Investments, Real Estate Entrepreneurship, and Debt Markets in the MBA, EMBA, PhD and MS&E programs. Professor Lancaster received the Robert. W.
Angela Lee teaches venture capital, leadership, and strategy courses at CBS. She brings 20 years of innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship experience to the classroom. She started her career in product management and then moved into strategy consulting at McKinsey. Angela is passionate about entrepreneurship and has started several companies in the education sector. She is a startup investor and the founder of 37 Angels, an investing network that has evaluated 15000 startups, invested in 80, and activates new investors through a startup investment boot camp.
Professor Jian Li joined Columbia Business School in 2021. She graduated with a PhD from the Joint Program of Financial Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research interest lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. She is particularly interested in how financial intermediaries affect the real economy and how different types of financial institutions can contribute to financial instability.
Keith Luh is a portfolio manager and head of cross asset investing for the Mutual Series group at Franklin Templeton focused on value and event-driven opportunities across equity and fixed income investments, globally. Prior to joining Mutual Series, Mr. Luh was an analyst in global investment research at Putnam Investments, where he also helped manage a best-ideas research fund. Previously, he worked in the investment banking group at Volpe Brown Whelan and Co., LLC, and the derivative products trading group at BNP. Mr.
Yiming Ma is an Associate Professor in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2018 and a B.A. in Economics & Mathematical and Global Affairs from Yale University in 2013.
Omid Malekan is the the author of several books, including Re-Architecting Trust: the Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms as well as The Story of the Blockchain: A Beginner’s Guide to the Technology That Nobody Understands. An eight-year veteran of the crypto industry, his writing on this and related topics has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Spectator Magazine, and his own blog on Medium.
Harry Mamaysky is a Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School, where he serves as the Director of the Program for Financial Studies. He is also on the Steering Committee of the Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Technology. Harry teaches capital markets and asset pricing to MBA, Masters and PhD students, as well as Executive Education courses on the use of text data in finance, and on corporate bonds. He has consulted for a quantitative investment firm and for a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.
Rocio Martinez is an Assistant Director in the Economics division. She started at the Business School in September 2005. Rocio is from New York City.
Michael J. Mauboussin is Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global. Prior to joining Counterpoint Global in January 2020, he was Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management in New York. Before joining BlueMountain, he was a Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse. Before rejoining Credit Suisse, he was Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management from 2004-2012. Mr. Mauboussin joined Credit Suisse in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst and was named Chief U.S. Investment Strategist in 1999.
Christopher Mayer is the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School. His research explores a variety of topics in real estate and financial markets, including housing cycles, mortgage markets, debt securitization, and commercial real estate valuation. Dr. Mayer is also CEO of Longbridge Financial, an innovative reverse mortgage company focused on delivering responsible home equity products to older Americans to help finance retirement.
Jeffrey Meli is a Managing Director and Co-Head of FICC Research at Barclays, based in New York. He assumed his current role in February 2013. Mr. Meli oversees the Credit, Emerging Markets, Foreign Exchange and Technical Strategy research teams globally and continues to serve as a publishing analyst.
Karl Mergenthaler, CFA is an Executive Director in the J.P. Morgan Investment Analytics & Consulting Group. His principal responsibility is to provide analytical and consulting services to pension funds and other institutional investors. Karl has more than 14 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2007, Karl was an equity analyst and portfolio manager at Avatar Associates, where he was actively involved in the management of portfolios of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).
Roger Mesznik has more than twenty five year experience lecturing, teaching, and consulting on Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Markets and Instruments, Financial Strategy and Planning, International Business, Managerial Accounting, and in training senior executives and MBA students.
Professor Moon is a Partner and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Private Equity. He initially joined Morgan Stanley Private Equity in 1998 and was promoted to Managing Director in 2002. He serves on the Investment Committee of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. Prior to rejoining Morgan Stanley Private Equity in 2008, he was a Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings LLC where he served on the Investment Committees of the Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy & Power Funds III and IV. Previously, Prof.
Professor Mueller is the co-Portfolio Manager of Polen Capital’s Global Growth Strategy. Polen Capital is a global, independently-owned equity boutique that aims to identify the highest quality companies and hold them for long periods of time in order to achieve sustainable above average growth for clients. Professor Mueller holds an MBA from Columbia Business School where he graduated from the Value Investing Program with Dean’s Honors and Distinction. He is a Tillman Scholar, an ambassador for the Travis Manion Foundation, and a former US Marine.
Tomasz Piskorski is the Edward S. Gordon Professor of Real Estate in the Finance Division at Columbia Business School. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Academic Research Council of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Professor Piskorski earned a M.S. in Mathematics from New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University Stern School of Business.
Vikas Raj is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. He is a noted expert on venture capital and impact investing, with a particular focus on financial technology (fintech) and resilience.
Aamir A. Rehman is a Senior Fellow at the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University. His contributions to the Center focus on investors’ ESG considerations and the public aspects of private investments.
Professor Luigi Rizzo is Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, based in London.
Prior to Morgan Stanley, he held leadership positions at Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.
Lynne B. Sagalyn is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor Emerita of Real Estate at Columbia Business School, where she was formerly the director of the MBA Real Estate Program and the founding director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate.
Professor Tano Santos is the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Management and Finance and the Academic Director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, where he has taught since 2003. Previously he was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. At Columbia, he teaches courses on Value Investing, Modern Value, and Modern Political Economy.
Professor Parinitha (Pari) Sastry is an assistant professor of finance at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on climate change, financial intermediation, and real-estate markets. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her finance Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has worked previously at the Department of Treasury, Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, Brookings Institution, and New York Fed.
Christopher Schwarz is a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Columbia Business School. He is also currently a Professor of Finance at the University of California, Irvine where he also serves as the Faculty Director of the Center for Investment and Wealth Management. He studies the behavior of retail investors, retail market structure, and the management, disclosure, and operational risk of the investment fund industry.
Mr. Sherman is Senior Advisor and Chairman of the Investment Committee at BGO Strategic Capital Partners (formerly Metropolitan Real Estate), a real estate investment management business that he co-founded in 2002 and of which he served as President through 2018. (Metropolitan became part of the Investment Solutions Division of The Carlyle Group in 2013 and was acquired by BentallGreenOak in 2021). In addition, Mr. Sherman is Co-Director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr.
Blair C. Smith is Senior Director of the Center for Financial Markets at the Milken Institute, with more than 20 years of financial services and captial markets experience. He leads the Center’s Access to Capital and strategic innovative financing initiatives, to enhance economic and social impact. Mr. Smith also leads the Institute's work on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Asset Management, as well as Impact Investment including CDFIs, MDIs and Opportunity Zone Funds.
Mr. Stone is the head of Oaktree Capital Management’s high-yield bond area. In this capacity, he serves as co-portfolio manager of Oaktree’s US High-Yield Bond and Global High-Yield Bond strategies, and has supervisory responsibility for European High-Yield Bonds.
Suresh Sundaresan is the Robert W. Lear Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University. He has published in the areas of Treasury auctions, bidding, default risk, habit formation, term structure of interest rates, asset pricing, investment theory, pension asset allocation, swaps, options, forwards, futures, fixed-income securities markets and risk management.
Professor Dominik Supera joined the Columbia Business School in 2022. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. In his work, he combines empirical analysis and economic theory in the areas of financial intermediation, corporate finance and monetary economics. He is particularly interested in the impact of financial regulation, monetary policy and central bank interventions on the banking sector.
Professor Tetlock's research interests include behavioral finance, asset pricing, and prediction markets. One area of his research examines how firms' stock market prices respond to the content of news stories. His 2007 Journal of Finance study on the impact of negative words, such as "flaw" and "ruin," won the Smith-Breeden Prize for the best article in asset pricing. His research has been featured in popular press outlets such as Business Week, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is the Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, which he joined in July 2018. His research lies in the intersection of housing, asset pricing, and macroeconomics. One strand of his work studies how financial market liberalization in the mortgage market relaxed households' down payment constraints, and how that affected the macro-economy, and the prices of stocks and bonds.
Laura Veldkamp is the Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance & Economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, with an economics Ph.D. from Stanford. She has been a board member and chair of the governance committee for the American Finance Association, an editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and a frequent keynote speaker at prestigious academic conferences in both finance and economics.
Achilles Venetoulias has 30 years’ experience in taking and managing risk, and in creating and running businesses. He has founded and run two hedge funds, taken proprietary risk for large institutions, supervised the investment process for a European fund of hedge funds, and served on the Board of a fund of hedge funds for an international wealth management firm. He has also founded a fintech company that
For 29 years Michael has invested directly at the security level and indirectly as an asset allocator in traditional and alternative asset classes. He is a Managing Director, Head of Hedge Funds and Alternative Alpha, and on the Investment Committee at APG, a world leader in Environmental, Social and Governance Investing. Previously he was the Chief Investment Officer at MOV37 and Protege Partners.
David E. Weinstein is the Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University. He is also the director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), co-director of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, co-director of the Japan Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research and the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee.
Since 2008, Robert Willens has been the president of his own tax and accounting service. Previously, he was a Managing Director in the Equity Research department at Lehman Brothers, Inc in New York for 20 years. Mr.
C. Scott Wo, Ph.D. is an Owner / Executive of C. S. Wo & Sons. He is a 1983 graduate of Punahou School, and received his Bachelors of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his MBA in Finance, Accounting, and International Business from Columbia Business School, and his PhD in finance from UCLA. Dr.
Daniel Wolfenzon is the Nomura Professor of International Finance at Columbia Business School. He received a Masters and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and holds a BS in economics and a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT. Professor Wolfenzon previously taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago and NYU. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in corporate finance and organizational economics.
Kairong Xiao is Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. His research interests span financial intermediation, corporate finance, monetary economics, industrial organization, and political economy.
Emmanuel Yimfor joined Columbia Business School in 2023, following a position as Assistant Professor of Finance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. His research is centered on empirical corporate finance, with a particular emphasis on entrepreneurial finance, private equity, and financial intermediation. His work aims to identify and address various frictions inhibiting startups' access to external financing, particularly among historically disadvantaged groups.
Ed Zimmerman co-founded and chairs the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler, where he’s been a growth company, startup and venture lawyer for 30 years. Chambers ranked Ed among the 22 best lawyers inStartups & Emerging Companies–USA–Nationwide (the only NYC-based lawyer listed (2018)). Best Lawyers in America named Ed 2017 NYC Venture Capital Lawyer of the Year.
Mark A. Zurack teaches Capital Markets and Investments, Equity Derivatives and Equity Markets and Products at Columbia Business School. Mark is currently on the Board of Directors of the Binghamton University Foundation and also serves on the Boards of the Alzheimer's Association, Teach For America, Upper West Success Academy, ETC, Southampton Bath and Tennis and the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Program. Prior to coming to Columbia, Professor Zurack worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years. He joined GS in 1983 and started the equity derivatives research group.