Faculty Biographies

The co-director of Columbia Law School’s Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, Jeffrey N.

Michael J. Graetz is the Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law and the Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia Law School. Before coming to Columbia in 2009, he was the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law at Yale University, where he had taught since 1983. Before Yale, he was a professor of law at the University of Virginia and the University of Southern California Law Schools and Professor of Law and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

Professor Hubbard is a specialist in public economics, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than 100 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics and public policy, including two textbooks, and has authored The Wall and the Bridge and coauthored Balance, The Aid Trap, and Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.

Wojciech Kopczuk is a Professor of Economics and of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (where he has worked since 2003), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. He holds a PhD from University of Michigan and MSc in computer science from Warsaw University. His research focuses on economic implications and design of tax policy and administration, as well as on income and wealth inequality, and it has been published in leading economics journals.

Andrew L. Stern is a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University Richman Center and the former President of the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest union of health care, hospital, nursing home, homecare, janitors, security officers, child care, food service, and state workers, and the fastest-growing union in North America.

Pierre Yared is the MUTB Professor of International Business, currently on leave to serve as Vice Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He previously served as the 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, studies the political economy of macroeconomic policy.