Accounting Division Other Affiliates

Matthew Dell Orfano is a Senior member at Discovery Capital, focusing globally on multiple sectors, thematic trade construction, and special situations, in addition to managing their data efforts.  He is responsible for individual positions and the internal thematically driven portfolio, which assimilates bottoms-up analysis and macro thematic from over 55 countries into actionable insights.

Pauline Lam teaches Financial Accounting at Columbia University. Her broad research interests include ESG, financial statement analysis, standard setting, and auditing. She is currently a visiting scholar at NYU Stern working on post-doctorate publications, in particular, the credibility of ESG commitments and the nature of the projects funded by green bonds. The green bond research project currently receives funding from NYU Stern. Other ESG research includes regulatory impacts related to ESG practices.

Edward Li is Adjunct Associate Professor at CBS. He teaches the MBA courses -- Core Financial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation. 

Professor Igor Vaysman is an award-winning teacher and an expert in performance evaluation, information-system design, and transfer pricing.

He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Texas at Austin; the University of Chicago; INSEAD; NYU; and Columbia University. He is currently a professor at the Zicklin School of Business at the City University of New York where he teaches in the MBA and MS programs; he also teaches in Columbia University’s Global EMBA program.