Directors of the Richman Center represent both the Business and Law Schools and share responsibility for charting the center's course as well as guiding scholarly output and outreach.

Jeffrey N. Gordon
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Jeffrey N. Gordon
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
The co-director of Columbia Law School’s Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, Jeffrey N.

Costis Maglaras
Dean, Dean's Office
Dean; David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business, Decision, Risk, and Operations Division

Costis Maglaras
Dean, Dean's Office
Dean; David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business, Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Costis Maglaras is the 16th Dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia University. Costis received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1990, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991 and 1998, respectively. He joined Columbia Business School in 1998, when he joined the Decision, Risk and Operations Division.

Edward R. Morrison
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Charles Evans Gerber Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Edward R. Morrison
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Charles Evans Gerber Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Ed Morrison is an expert in corporate finance and restructuring, household finance and consumer bankruptcy, and contract law. He is co-editor of the Journal of Legal Studies.

Kathleen Rithisorn
Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University

Kathleen Rithisorn
Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University

David Schizer
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Dean Emeritus and Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

David Schizer
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Dean Emeritus and Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
David M. Schizer served as a dean of the Law School from 2004 to 2014 and is one of the nation’s leading tax scholars. His research also focuses on nonprofits, energy law, and corporate governance.

Daniela Tisch
Managing Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University

Daniela Tisch
Managing Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University

Pierre Yared
Senior Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, Dean's Office
Vice Dean, Executive Education, Executive Education
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
MUTB Professor of International Business, Economics Division

Pierre Yared
Senior Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, Dean's Office
Vice Dean, Executive Education, Executive Education
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
MUTB Professor of International Business, Economics Division
Pierre Yared is the MUTB Professor of International Business, Senior Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Vice Dean for Executive Education at Columbia Business School. His research, which has been published in leading academic journals, focuses on macroeconomic policy and political economy. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the American Economic Review. Yared teaches Global Economic Environment, a Core MBA course in macroeconomics for which he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

Stephen Zeldes
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Economics Division

Stephen Zeldes
Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University
Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Economics Division
Stephen P. Zeldes is the Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He serves as co-director of the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University. He served as chair of the school’s Finance and Economics division from 2014-17.